Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Aircraft

HC Deb 21 February 1978 vol 944 c550W

20. Mr. Cartwright

asked the Secretary of State for Defence why the markings on the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight aircraft have been changed.

Mr. Wellbeloved

During the course of a review of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight last year it was decided to change the markings of the aircraft from time to time so that more squadrons could thus be commemorated. The first two aircraft to be given new markings, a Spitfire and a Hurricane, are now being repainted, and will bear the markings of Nos. 19 and 111 Squadrons, the first, respectively, to fly these aircraft.