An annual flypast by the Snowbirds precision flying team over a Toronto-area public school, which had been cancelled following noise complaints from residents, will go ahead, CTV News has learned.

Second Lieutenant Petra Smith, a spokeswoman for the Snowbirds, told CTV Toronto Saturday night students at the Whitby school named after a fallen Snowbirds pilot will see the dazzling jets once again.

"The flypast is on for the first day of school, so the students from the Captain Michael VandenBos Public School will be able to look up in the sky, and the tradition and honour will continue for this community and his family," MairiAnna Bachynsky reported.

The decision came following complaints and a petition from local residents calling for the spectacle to be reinstated.

The thundering rumble that excites so many prompted some residents to write a letter to Ottawa. One unidentified farmer said every time the planes fly overhead, one of his cows dies.

A hero and former resident, VandenBos died when his jet clipped the wings of another in 1998 during a practice at CFB Moose Jaw. Since 2001, the Snowbirds have treated schoolchildren with the flypast.

"And that's what makes it their school, having the Snowbirds every single year," said an upset Stephanie Wood, whose has two children attending VandenBos.

A letter was circulated at the end of July, notifying parents of the decision to cancel the event.

Smith said no one was more upset than the Snowbirds members themselves, but the decision was made because they had received several noise complaints submitted in writing.

No one at the school or at the Durham District School Board, however, received any complaints.

School board trustee John Dolstra could not believe the spectacle was cancelled because one cow supposedly died on a farm.

"Well, I said I have 73,000 complaints, and they're called kids, and they're going to be awful disappointed," he said.

Whitby mayor Marcel Brunelle had vowed to bring back the Snowbirds to honour their fallen colleague.

The Snowbirds perform in Whitby following shows at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto each year. Their highly skilled manoeuvres make them a favourite for many.

With a report from CTV Toronto's MairiAnna Bachynsky