The Red Arrows will grace Kent’s skies this Sunday as the world-renowned group celebrates its 60th display season.

The pilots will first enter Kentish airspace shortly after 2.30pm today when they fly from Goudhurst, past Maidstone, and over Sittingbourne to the Isle of Sheppey.

Birchington-on-Sea residents can see the RAF pilots at 5.06pm before they head west to Sturry, and then south over Bekesbourne, Kingston, Breach, Densole, and Hawkinge.

With squadron leader Jon Bond heading the group, the Arrows will fly to Folkestone to star in the town’s Armed Forces and Community Fun Day with a 22-minute display.

The Red Arrows team has performed since 1965, and has flown almost 5,000 displays in 57 countries.

The event in Folkestone will get going at 10am with a military band parade to march from the WWI Memorial Arch to The Leas Bandstand.

The band will perform the national anthem before a ceremonial raising of the flags and a series of different music and dance performances between 11am and 1pm.

The Red Arrows are scheduled to wow crowds with stunts and coloured vapour trails crisscrossing the skies from 5.10pm.

After a brief excursion over the channel, the Hawk fast-jets will beeline back to Thanet, passing over St Margarets Bay, Ringwould, Northbourne Woodnesborough, Monkton and Saint-Nicholous-at-Wade at about 5.38pm

Residents of Whitsable and Herne Bay will then need merely to look coastwards to see the Red Arrows dart across the Thames Estuary to land at London Southend airport at 5.42pm.