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Header image: Left: Club member Adrian Johnson and his wife Helen, also a member, won the BBMF Experience Day in 2025. Here they were watching Lancaster PA474 starting up for a sortie from a privileged standpoint. Right: Rory Weatherburn won the BBMF Spitfire cockpit experience in 2025.

We are delighted to be able to announce that Club members will once again be able to win some ‘money cannot buy it’ BBMF Experiences as ballot prizes in 2026, available only to Club members.

Header Image: Lancaster PA474, Spitfires P7350, PM631 and PS915, and Hurricane LF363 airborne en route from Coltishall to their new home at Coningsby on 1st March 1976. (Photo: BBMF Archives)

On 1st March the BBMF will have been resident at RAF Coningsby for 50 years!

In exciting news from the BBMF Visitor Centre at Coningsby, a new exhibition area has been installed to replace the previous arrangement which had been in place for many years. The new exhibition area is much more open and spacious with new displays, and it will provide a much-improved area for visitors waiting for their escorted tour of the BBMF hangar and the aircraft. The concept for the new exhibition area was devised and refined by a BBMF Visitor Centre team, the wall displays were expertly designed and produced by the talented designers from The Energy Cell and installed by Allen Signs.