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Header image: The 2019 BBMF Experience Day prize winner, Club member Anthony Andrews (right), with his guests, granddaughter Melissa, daughter Katrine and her husband Philip. (Photos: Clive Rowley)

For the fourth successive year, the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club has been able to offer a fantastic ballot prize of a ‘money cannot buy it’, chance-of-a-lifetime Experience Day with the BBMF. Long-standing club member Anthony Andrews was this year’s lucky winner of the Experience Day prize. He was able to spend the day with the BBMF at the Flight’s home at RAF Coningsby on Saturday 29th June, Armed Forces Day. His guests, who shared the day with him, were his daughter Katrine, her husband Philip and their daughter Melissa. The group were allowed special access to the RAF Station at Coningsby and were hosted by former OC BBMF and your Club publications editor, Clive Rowley.

Header image: BBMF Hurricane Mk IIC PZ865 displaying at the recent Armed Forces Day event at Cleethorpes on 29th June, flown by Gp Capt Mark Flewin, the RAF Coningsby Station Commander. (Photo: Tim Clarke)

BBMF Hurricane Mk IIC PZ865 first flew on 27th July 1944, 75 years ago this month. PZ865 was the last Hawker Hurricane ever built, from a total of 14,533. Fitted with four 20mm cannons and a Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine, it came off the production line at the huge Hawker aircraft factory at Langley with the inscription ‘The Last of the Many’ painted beneath the cockpit on both sides.

All members of the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club are automatically entered into monthly prize ballots to win some wonderful prizes. In the last three months several lucky members have won some brilliant and unique prizes. There have also been further bonus prizes on offer each month. 

These were the Club prizes and winners for April to June 2019: