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BBMF Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfi re (photo: Richard Paver).


RAF Battle of Britain Memorial


Flight Preserving,


Commemorating and Inspiring


40 Envoy Autumn 2017


As many of you will know,the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.


As the operator of 12 airworthy, iconic, historic aircraft, the BBMF aircraft fleet includes six Supermarine Spitfires. Mk IIa P7350 is the only surviving, flying Spitfire from the Battle of Britain; Mk Vb AB910 flew 143 wartime ‘ops’, it was involved in the ‘Channel Dash’, the Dieppe Raid and flew over the Normandy beaches on D-Day; Mk IX MK356 flew 60 ‘ops’ in 60 days, it too is aD-Day veteran with ashared kill against aGerman fighter on D-Day+1; Mk XVI TE311 and the two photo- reconnaissance Griffon-engine PR Mk XIXs demonstrate the later development of the Spitfire family.


The Flight proudly holds on its strength two Hawker Hurricanes of 1944 vintage, including the last Hurricane ever built, PZ865, the ‘Last of the Many’, whilst Hurricane LF363 flew with the RAF during the war.


Avro Lancaster PA474 is currently one of only two airworthy Lancasters in the world and C-47 Dakota ZA947


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