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This month one lucky winner will win a copy of Hurricane: Hawker’s Fighter Legend, by John Dibbs and Tony Holmes.

All current members have been automatically entered into this month’s ballot.

All members of the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club are automatically entered into our monthly prize ballots to win some special prizes. These were the ballot prizes for the months of April to June 2021 and the lucky Club members who won them.

Header image: BBMF C-47 Dakota ZA947 in its current 233 Sqn D-Day livery. (Photo: Jarrod Cotter).  Inset: Wg Cdr Peter Bailey, who flew Dakotas with 233 Sqn during the Second World War.

Regular followers of the BBMF will know that the Flight’s C-47 Dakota ZA947 is currently painted to represent a Dakota of 233 Squadron during the D-Day period in 1944. It has come to our attention that one of the last 233 Squadron Dakota pilots to have participated in those operations, Wing Commander Peter Bailey, passed away peacefully in Queensland, Australia, on 14th April 2021, at the age of 99.