List of air show accidents and incidents in the 20th century

This is a year-by-year list of aviation accidents that have occurred at airshows worldwide in the 20th century.

2000 August 18 – Airbourne 2000 show (Eastbourne, East Sussex, England) – Former Red Arrows pilot Ted Girdler was killed when his Aero L-29 Delfín jet failed to pull up from a diving roll and crashed into the English Channel. June 18 – Willow Grove 2000 Sounds of Freedom Air Show (Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) – Two crew members of an Grumman F-14 Tomcat were killed when their aircraft lost altitude and crashed into a wooded area. They were demonstrating a low speed "landing wave-off maneuver" at the time of the accident. March 18 – Wings Over South Texas (Kingsville NAS, Texas) – Pilot Maj. Brison Phillips was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed at an air show while thousands of horrified spectators watched. Phillips had been attempting a Split S maneuver, in which the pilot rolls the airplane until it is upside down and then drops in a dive. The plane hit the ground and exploded, scattering debris for half a mile in a field about north of the naval base about 12:45 p.m.

1999 October 3 – California International Airshow (Salinas, California) – Pilot Wayne Handley was seriously injured when his custom built Turbo Raven crashed during maneuvers. The NTSB attributed the crash to pilot error, but Handley attributed it to an engine malfunction. September 18 – Reno Air Races (also known as National Championship Air Races) – Pilot Gary Levitz, 61, a 30-year race veteran of Grand Prairie, Texas, was racing his highly modified Mustang P-51, which disintegrated during the Gold Unlimited race, scattering debris and damaging a house in Lemmon Valley, just east of the Stead Airport Base, where the races were being held. The NTSB had determined that the tail empennage failed in flight causing the aircraft to break apart. September 12 – Harriman-West Airport airshow (North Adams, Massachusetts) – Both pilots were killed when a Cessna 337C and a Cessna 305C collided in midair while conducting in-trail fly-bys. July 29 – EAA Airventure airshow (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) – Pilot Laird Doctor was seriously injured when his F4U Corsair collided with a stationary F8F Bearcat during its takeoff roll. The Corsair crashed in flames beside the runway and was destroyed. Howard Pardue, the pilot of the Bearcat, was not seriously injured but his aircraft suffered major damage. June 12 – Paris Air Show (Paris, France) – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI demonstrator '01' (with canards and vectored thrust), crashed at Le Bourget Airport. At the completion of a downward spiraling maneuver, the tail contacted the grass surface. With almost no forward speed the fighter was able to pull away from the ground, wings level, with an up pitch of 10–15 degrees and climb to ~, with the right jet nozzle deflected fully up and flames engulfing the left engine. Sukhoi test pilot Vyacheslav Averynov initiated ejection with navigator Vladimir Shendrikh departing the aircraft first. The Zvezda K-36D-3.5 ejection seats worked perfectly and both crew descended on to a taxiway unhurt. The Su-30 impacted some distance from the crew.Stamford, Lincs., UK: Air Forces Monthly, Alan Dawes, "That Crash – at Le Bourget", August 1999, Number 137, pages 50–53. The incident was captured on video. June 6 – Milan Rastislav Stefanik airport airshow (Bratislava, Slovakia) – Test pilot Graham Wardell was killed when his BAE Systems Hawk 200 failed to pull out of a low turn and struck the ground. A female spectator was knocked off a nearby rooftop by the force of the explosion and died of her injuries. May 30 – Nowra, New South Wales, Australia – A vintage CAC Wirraway crashed during the display, killing pilot Owen O'Malley and observer Phil Lloyd.

1998 August 15 – Swanton Morley Airshow (East Dereham, Norfolk, England) – Pilot Christopher Wilkins was killed when his Rollason D31 Turbulent stalled and crashed while performing with the Tiger Club display team. July 3 – Traverse City, Michigan – During a practice flight prior to performing in the National Cherry Festival Air Show, an Aero L-39 Albatross went missing. Neither the plane nor its pilots were ever seen again. May 19 – DARE Airshow (Manassas, Virginia) – Pilot Dr. Miles Merritt was killed when his Sukhoi Su-29 crashed while performing a skidding turn at too low an "altitude". March 1 – Mount Gambier Airshow (Mount Gambier, South Australia) – An Air Tractor AT-802A crashed at the aerodrome whilst performing a low-level fire-fighting display. The pilot lost control after attempting a sudden steep climb at high speed and was killed in the crash. There were no other casualties in the incident.

1997 October 12 – Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England – The last airworthy World War II German Messerschmitt Bf 109 crashed while being flown by Air Chief Marshal Sir John Allison, Commander-in-Chief of RAF Strike Command. He was unhurt despite the plane coming to rest upside down. The plane, known to be difficult to land due to poor visibility from the cockpit and its narrow-track landing gear, had overshot the runway while landing following the malfunction of its Daimler-Benz DB 605 engine. September 20 – Sixth Annual Confederate Air Force Airshow (San Marcos, Texas) – An Aerotek Pitts S-2A aerobatic biplane piloted by James Kincaid crashed at the bottom of a snap roll and dive maneuver in front of a crowd of approximately 15,000. The pilot died from his injuries later that day. Witnesses reported that the plane did not have sufficient airspeed at the start of the sequence to keep from crashing at the bottom of the dive. September 14 – Chesapeake Air Show (Middle River, Maryland) – A Lockheed F-117, 81–793, of the 7th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Wing, at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, lost its port wing at 1500 hrs. during a pass over Martin State Airport, and crashed into a residential area of Bowley's Quarters, Maryland, damaging several homes. Four people on the ground received minor injuries and the pilot, Maj. Bryan "B.K." Knight, 36, escaped with minor injuries after ejecting from the aircraft. A month-long Air Force investigation found that four of 39 fasteners for the wing's structural support assembly were apparently left off when the wings were removed and reinstalled in January 1996, according to a report released on December 12, 1997. July 26 – Ostend Airshow (Ostend, Belgium) – Captain Omar Hani Bilal of the Jordanian Air Force display team, the Royal Jordanian Falcons, was killed when he lost control of his Walter Extra EA300S. His plane crashed at the end of the runway and burst into flames near a Red Cross tent and spectator stands. On the ground, eight were killed and forty injured. June 22 – Wings Over Long Island Airshow (Westhampton, New York) – Two planes racing collided over Francis S. Gabreski Airport in front of 15,000 spectators. Pilot Dick Goodlett died when his aircraft crashed and burst into flames. The second plane crash-landed, critically injuring pilot Chris Kalishek. June 1 – Air Show Colorado 1997 (Broomfield, Colorado) – Ret. Colonel "Smiling Jack" Jack M. Rosamond was killed when he lost control of his restored F-86 Sabre Jet during an acrobatic loop at what was then known as Jefferson County Airport. Unseasonably high temperatures combined with the naturally high elevation () of the airport was thought to make the air less dense than expected, leading to poor effectiveness of flight control surfaces. Nobody else was injured in the accident.

1996 September 14 – Aerospace Days show (Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington) – Bob Heale of Spokane was killed when his French CAP-10 crashed on its belly onto a dirt field in windy, rainy conditions. Investigators focused on possible mechanical problems with the 21-year-old plane. Bob Heale had also been a regular performer at the Silverwood Theme Park in Athol, Idaho.Spokane Spokesman-Review September 15, 1996 pages A1 and A11. August 4 – Three Rivers Regatta (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) – Pilot Clarence Speal was killed when the left hand wings on his biplane folded back, which caused him to lose control and crash into the Ohio River. July 21 – Barton Aerodrome air show (Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester, England) – The last de Havilland Mosquito known to be airworthy (serial number RR299), a T Mk. III built at Leavesden in Spring 1945, crashed with the loss of both crew after suffering loss of engine power when performing a wing-over maneuver. The incident was captured on video. July 14 – Flying Legends Air Display (Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England) – Pilot Michael "Hoof" Proudfoot was killed when his Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft crashed and cartwheeled while performing a roll maneuver. Several aircraft on the ground were damaged or destroyed. June 2 – Bartlesville Biplane Exposition (Bartlesville, Oklahoma) – Two biplanes clipped wings on landing killing all four aboard: William Watson, 71; John Halterman, 51; Rodney Bogan, 41; and Annette Delahay, 45. 4 May – Sertoma Cajun Air Festival (Lafayette, Louisiana) – Pilot Joe Hartung, 44, perished when the Canadian-built Harvard Mk. II he was flying hit the runway while performing a low altitude roll. April 27 – Shiloh Airshow (Stoneville, North Carolina) – Pilot Lindsey Hess escaped injury when his Pitts S2 A crashed inverted on the runway following his attempt to cut a ribbon with the plane. April 16 – EAA Sun 'n Fun (Lakeland, Florida) – Pilot Charlie Hillard was killed when his Hawker Sea Fury flipped over while landing in a crosswind.

1995 September 9 – Johannisthal, Germany – A DASA-operated Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun, D-EFPT, crashed during an airshow, killing pilot Gerd Kahdemann and passenger Reinhard Furrer, a former astronaut who had flown in space for Germany in 1985 during the STS-61A mission aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. After completing an aerobatic display, the Bf 108 was seen to climb and attempt an aileron turn with increased pitch that developed into a barrel-roll into the ground at a ~90-degree angle. A piece of the airframe that came loose while the aircraft was inverted was found to be the starboard wing leading edge slat.News, "Messerschmitt destroyed", FlyPast, Stamford, Lincs., UK, Number 172, November 1995, page 19. September 2 – Canadian International Air Show (Toronto, Ontario) – Seven Royal Air Force crew members were killed when their Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2P stalled during a low altitude turn and crashed into Lake Ontario. August 17 – Moscow Airshow (Moscow, Russia) – Natalia Sergeeva died while performing at the airshow. She was the Women's Aerobatic Champion at the World Aerobatic Championship in Switzerland in 1990.

1994 June 24 – Fairchild Air Force Base (Spokane, Washington) – A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress registered 61-0026, performing a demonstration flight for an airshow at Fairchild Air Force Base, stalled and crashed due to its pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Bud Holland pushing the aircraft beyond its operational limits. The aircraft exploded, killing all 4 on board. June 11 – Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mount Clemens, Michigan – Ray Mabery was killed when his Canadair T-33 crashed during an unplanned roll. April 3 – Warbirds Over Wanaka display (Wanaka, New Zealand) – Ian Reynolds died when his de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk 22A crashed after he misjudged the arch of his dive.

1993 October 3 – Lanseria Air Show (Lanseria International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa) – Silver Falcon 5, an Atlas Impala Mk1 no 489, piloted by Charles Rudenick, crashed at Lanseria Airport after structural failure. The pilot initiated the ejection sequence half a second before impact. He came out horizontally with the fuselage vertical and a high downward velocity. He was killed when he was "sucked" into the crash fireball.