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No tickets and free admission thanks to the long-term support of our partners!

Thanks to the support of our fans and loyal visitors, the NATO Days in Ostrava & Czech Air Force Days have become the biggest security show in Europe. Free entry also contributed to this status. This would not be possible without the long-term support of our marketing partners, whose contributions cover up to 70% of the costs of the event, with subsidies accounting for less than a third.

Throughout the history of the event, we strive to present a wide range of resources available to the Czech Republic and its allies in ensuring security, and therefore we are happy to be able to offer free entry thanks to the support of those companies that provide these resources from public taxes. We believe that this concept will be interesting for visitors even in the current situation, when the prices of almost everything are rising steeply.

Therefore, on behalf of the visitors, we would like to thank our long-term partners, which include Saab AG as a general partner, Škoda AUTO as an exclusive partner, CZECHOSLOVAK GROUP and TATRA TRUCKS as special partners, and main partners AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE, Bell Flight, OMNIPOL, Colt CZ Group, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, and Ray Service. Of course, our thanks also go to dozens of other partners.

It is only thanks to their support that we are able to present a first-class program every year, which combines prestigious premieres and proven demonstrations of a wide range of security units. And it will be no different this year, when the area will be full of aircraft and vehicles.

Due to its scope, the NATO Days have a significant impact on the economy of the region, where the show fundamentally contributes to tourism in Ostrava and the entire Moravian-Silesian region, brings money to the state treasury and creates new jobs. Only a third of the budget is thus subsidized by the Moravian-Silesian Region, the statutory city of Ostrava, and state institutions, but every crown invested in this way will be returned to them many times over in taxes.

In 2014, when we commissioned a study of the economic impact of attendance at the event, 27.5 million CZK was paid to the state treasury in the form of taxes, and the event created the equivalent of 122 new full-time jobs for one year. These data are based only on the expenses of visitors, not organizers, partners, or participants. It is therefore safe to state that this is only a part of the overall economic impacts, which are actually even higher.

The NATO Days in Ostrava & Czech Air Force Days are not the only similar event in the Central European region without admission. Another is, for example, the AIR POWER air show in Zeltweg, Austria.

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22^nd NATO Days in Ostrava & 13^th Czech Air Force Days!

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