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A new 100-page RAF BBMF Official Souvenir Guide has now been published. The Official Souvenir Guide is intended mainly for sale in the BBMF Visitor Centre shop. A new version is produced every three years to include various changes that may have occurred and particularly to update the details of the colour schemes applied to the Flight’s historic aircraft. The guide contains the detailed histories of all of the legendary BBMF aircraft with stunning imagery.

The RAF BBMF hangar will be closed to visitors for the Christmas and New Year period from Saturday 18th December 2021 to Sunday 9th January 2022 inclusive, re-opening for hangar tours on Monday 10th January. The Visitor Centre exhibition area and shop will re-open on Monday 4th January 2022.

Header image: Sqn Ldr Mark ‘Suggs’ Sugden (left), the new OC BBMF, shakes hands with the outgoing OC, Sqn Ldr Mark ‘Disco’ Discombe AFC (right).  (Photo: Crown Copyright)

The BBMF has now had a change of command. Squadron Leader Mark’ Disco’ Discombe AFC, who has flown with the Flight as a fighter pilot for the last seven display seasons and commanded the BBMF for the last three years, has moved on. With his time flying with the BBMF over, Disco is moving into a new post as the Training Officer on 29 Squadron – the Typhoon Operational Conversion Unit – at RAF Coningsby. He will also be flying Spitfire PR Mk XIX PS853, owned and operated privately by Rolls-Royce, during future display seasons, meaning that he will be one of very few pilots to have flown all of the BBMF’s founding aircraft from the Flight’s inauguration in 1957.