Oceana Flight Path — Attraction in Virginia Beach

This spot is amazing! If you have sensitive ears or kids who can’t tolerate loud noises, bring headphones or earplugs. Planes are on a path and schedule so it might be a few minutes before some fly over. It seemed they were on a 10 minute flight path difference when they came to land. Very cool and I got some nice shots with my camera! All of these are unedited. I recommend using a 16-50mm lens. Smaller the lens, the better, because they’ll be...

The viewing area is not on Southern Boulevard and you will have to drive to Oceana Boulevard to park and see the flight path. There is no street address for the lot. The coordinates are 36.83762° N, 76.01244° W. Once you get there, you are in the right spot to see planes.

If you put in “NAS Oceana Jet Viewing Area” into your GPS, it will take you to the...

This is a small parking space where you can see the planes taking off from the base. I spent some time there an saw a bunch of F-18s doing touch and go maneuvers. You could see them very close as they approached to the landing strip. No one bothered me for...