The rehearsals will be held in the vicinity of Southwold, Suffolk, Kings Lynn, Norfolk and RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire.

The flypast itself will form up at Southwold, Suffolk and overfly Buckingham Palace. It will then disperse in the RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire area.

2011 flypast.

NATS maps of rehearsals and Queen's Birthday Flypast 2011.

Queen's Birthday Rehearsal 2011.

Queen's Birthday Flypast 2011.

The formation will consist of the following 25 aircraft:

Chinook helicopter
2x Puma helicopters

Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane (BBMF)

2x Hercules
2x King Air

2x Typhoons
2x Tornado GR4s

2x HS-125s

9x Hawks (Red Arrows)

More details on RAF website.

First element is to be one Chinook and two Puma helicopters provided by Joint Helicopter Command from RAF Odiham and RAF Benson.

Second element is to be the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight; consisting of a Lancaster, a Spitfire and a Hurricane provided by RAF Coningsby.

Third element is to be two C130 aircraft provided by RAF Lyneham escorted by two King Air provided by RAF Cranwell.

Fourth element is to be two Typhoon provided by RAF Leuchars and two Tornado GR4 provided by RAF Marham.

Fifth element is to be two HS-125 provided by RAF Northolt

Sixth element is to be nine RAFAT Hawks provided by RAF Scampton.

Scanner Frequencies for Queen's Flypast over the Mall (previous years)