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<br /> Royal Air Force<br /> Battle of Britain<br /> Memorial Flight<br /> Official Souvenir Guide<br /> BBMF ORIGINS l THE BBMF TODAY<br /> THE BBMF TEAM l THE BBMF AIRCRAFT<br /> STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHS<br /> £5<br /> DETAILED AIRCRAFT HISTORIES<br /> Royal Air Force<br /> Battle of Britain Memorial Flight<br /> Patron<br /> His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge KG KT ADC(P)<br /> 2 RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT<br /> OFFICIAL GUIDE<br /> e Royal Air Force<br /> Battle of Britain Memorial Flight<br /> commemorates all those who have lost their lives serving with the<br /> RAF, or its predecessor the Royal Flying Corps, in all con icts from<br /> 1914 up to the present day. In most cases those who made the<br /> ultimate sacri ce were volunteers who willingly signed up to the<br /> risks. Perhaps all that they would ask in return is an understanding<br /> of what they achieved, of the hardships and trials they f<a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=1"> Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=2"> Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memori</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=3"> e Royal Air Force Battle o</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=4"> Contents 6. BBMF Origins & Today. 8. The BBMF Tea</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=5"> The entire contents of this publication are © cop</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=6"> Origins Battle of Britain Memorial Flight T </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=7"> Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Today T </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=8"> S A BBMF ghter pilot in the cockpit of Spit re M</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=9"> aspects of the aircraft engines and propellers, </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=10"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=11"> Battle of Britain Memorial Flight e BBMF Aircra T</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=12"> R Polish pilot Ludwik Martel was ying P7350 when</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=13"> The aircraft's code letters were changed to 603 S</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=14"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=15"> “KIWI III” Spitfire P7350 now represents a Spitfire</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=16"> R In its element. Spit re Mk IIa P7350, the only </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=17"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=18"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=19"> Spit re Mk Vb AB910 Flew 143 operational sorties </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=20"> R Spit re AB910's rst operational unit in August</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=21"> Ops from Cornwall with 130 Sqn After having been </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=22"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=23"> D-Day Spit re Records show that George Lawson flew</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=24"> R AB910 in air racing colours with the civilian r</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=25"> “After I taxied in and shut down, I remained</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=26"> W From 2003 to 2006 Spit re AB910 was painted i</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=27"> letters `SH-F' and the name of his new-born son `</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=28"> R Spit re Mk Vb AB910 – a genuine combat veteran.</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=29"> RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT OFFICIAL GU</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=30"> Spit re L.F. Mk IXe MK356 Flew 60 wartime sorties</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=31"> V Spit re Mk L.F. IXe MK356 wearing its latest de</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=32"> Spit re MK356 Spitfire MK356 was part of a batch o</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=33"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=34"> R Between 2008 and 2013 Spit re Mk IX MK356 appea</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=35"> The colour scheme represented Spitfire Mk IX,</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=36"> Spit re Mk L.F. XVIe TE311 Clipped-wing, low-back</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=37"> RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT OFFICIAL GU</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=38"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=39"> aircraft toured the country by road, visiting sho</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=40"> R Mk XVI Spit res TE311 (left) and TB382 dismantl</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=41"> These Spitfires could carry a 500-lb bomb on the c</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=42"> “Spit re with a punch” R `Clippe</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=43"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=44"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=45"> Spit re PR Mk XIX PM631 Ultimate Spitfire! </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=46"> O f all the roles undertaken by</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=47"> Spit re PR `ops' in wartime These PR Spitfires wer</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=48"> P Spit re PR Mk XIX PM631 was a founding aircraft</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 49" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=49"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 50" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=50"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 51" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=51"> Spit rePR XIX PS915 R BBMF Spit re PR Mk XIX</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 52" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=52"> R For the rst six years of its life in RAF servi</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 53" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=53"> the electric tea urn had broken! Formby also suffe</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 54" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=54"> R Spit re PS915 under refurbishment at BAe Samles</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 55" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=55"> R Between 1998 and 2003 PS915 was painted as a 15</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 56" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=56"> 56RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT OFFICIAL </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 57" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=57"> S BBMF Spit re PR Mk XIX PS915 in its element, hi</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 58" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=58"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 59" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=59"> Lancaster </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 60" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=60"> R These Lancaster B1s (Far East) show how PA474 w</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 61" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=61"> PA474 was variously based at Lungi in Sierra Leon</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 62" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=62"> R Lancaster PA474 engines running on the grass ai</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 63" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=63"> At Waddington After its arrival at Waddington PA4</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 64" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=64"> R In 1988 when PA474 was painted as `PM-M2', with</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 65" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=65"> PA474's colour schemes PA474 continued to wear th</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 66" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=66"> R Lancaster PA474 was painted as 100 Sqn's famous</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 67" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=67"> The port (left-hand) side is now painted to </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 68" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=68"> R RAF BBMF Lancaster B1 PA474 displays its latest</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 69" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=69"> RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT OFFICIAL GU</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 70" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=70"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 71" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=71"> Hurricane Mk II LF363 A founding aircraft of </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 72" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=72"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 73" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=73"> R Hurricane LF363 photographed at Langley in mid-</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 74" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=74"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 75" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=75"> S One of the Battle of Britain colour schemes wor</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 76" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=76"> W An atmospheric portrait of BBMF Hurricane Mk II</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 77" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=77"> RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT OFFICIAL GU</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 78" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=78"> Hurricane Mk IIC PZ865 `The Last of the Many!' </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 79" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=79"> g RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 80" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=80"> R The special ceremony at Hawker's factory at Lan</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 81" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=81"> Air Racer In 1950 PZ865 was brought out of storag</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 82" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=82"> R Hurricane PZ865 during lming for the `Battle o</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 83" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=83"> R One of Hurricane PZ865's most recent colour sch</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 84" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=84"> C-47 Dakota The BBMF `Dak' flies in honour of the </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 85" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=85"> III ZA947 R BBMF C-47 Dakota ZA947</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 86" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=86"> The C-47 pounds o</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 87" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=87"> Post war After the Second World War had ended and</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 88" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=88"> the Dakota was allocated the `modern' serial ZA94</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 89" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=89"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 90" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=90"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 91" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=91"> DH Chipmunks T10 WG486 and WK518 The last</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 92" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=92"> WK518 Also built at Broughton, Hawarden, and deli</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 93" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=93"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 94" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=94"> e RAF Memorial Flight O</a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 95" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=95"> </a> <a title="BBMF Official Guide 2018 page 96" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/0235d36d?page=96"> BBMF Contact Information For details and news of </a>