All members of the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club are automatically entered into our monthly prize draws to win some special prizes. Club members have won some wonderful and exclusive prizes over the last three months. These were the ballot prizes for October to December 2024 and the lucky Club members who won them:
During 2025 we will continue to present the image from the Club calendar for that month in the newsletter, with some details about the picture, including when and where the photo was taken. All the photos in the calendar were taken by Club members.
Header Image: BBMF Spitfire Mk XVI TE311 in its 322 (Dutch) Squadron markings and code letters ‘3W-M’. (Photo: Claire Hartley)
Regular followers of the BBMF will know that the Flight’s Mk XVI Spitfire, TE311, is currently painted on its port side in the markings of a wartime aircraft of 322 (Dutch) Squadron – TD322 – which had the code letters ‘3W-M’. TD322, a low-back, clipped-wing Spitfire, arrived to join 322 Squadron in April 1945 as a replacement aircraft. It adopted the code letters of a previous high-back Mk XVI Spitfire, RK840, which had been marked as ‘3W-M’ and which met a tragic end 80 years ago this month, on Sunday 28th January 1945.
