![]() ![]() The Hold Point for 19 is right on the Museum ramp so you get a chance to get pretty close to the takeoff rollouts. Typically, only a few hundred, a thousand at most, come to the AAM Museum ramp to see the show planes position and take off for the Beach, so visitors to the Museum, after paying a nominal fee, got a chance to get really close to most of the show planes all day while they are towed, prepped and fueled prior to lining up on Runway 1-19 for a southbound takeoff and climb out to Show Center at Jones Beach, eight miles away. ![]() If you got to Republic by 8:30 you could find a good parking spot on the street and near the gate to the American Airpower Museum ramp and the adjacent Sheltair FBO ramp where most of the aircraft on the show parked. Plus I didn’t have to bake on the Beach in the 90 degree heat that day. I stayed at Republic and was rewarded by being able to get really close to most of the air show planes staging out of FRG. The Jones Beach Air Show, officially known as the “Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach State Park 2019”, was held on Saturday and Sunday, May 26th and 27th, 2019, at - Jones Beach! But there was another air show going on at Republic Airport (FRG) in East Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, about 8 miles northwest of Jones Beach, where most of the air show performers were staging out of for the short hop to the Beach. ![]()
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