27 February 2021 - Capt Tom Moore's funeral -
Dakota (Bedfordshire)
13 May 2021 - BBMF gained their Public Display Authority.
Below are the 2021 display dates (May to October), venues & timings (BST) for the BBMF:
L = Lancaster,
S = Spitfire,
H = Hurricane,
D = Dakota.
Known flypasts are in italics.
May 2021
• 02 -
Shuttleworth Season Premiere Drive-in Display -
SS
June 2021
• 05 -
Midlands Air Festival -
SS - 2.30pm
• 05 -
Waltham on the Wolds flypast - 2.59pm
• 05 -
International Bomber Command Centre flypast - 3.10pm
• 06 -
Runnymede Air Forces Memorial flypast - D - 11.10am
• 06 -
Midlands Air Festival -
SS - 2.30pm
• 06 -
Shuttleworth Flying Festival of Britain Drive-in Display (Flypast) - S
• 23 -
RAF Coltishall Heritage Centre flypast, Norfolk - SH
• 25 -
Battle of Britain Airshow, Headcorn -
SS - 2.00pm
• 26 -
Battle of Britain Airshow, Headcorn -
SS - 2.00pm
• 26 -
Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Armed Forces Day- SH
• 27 -
Battle of Britain Airshow, Headcorn -
SSD - 2.00pm
• 27 -
Liverpool City Centre, Merseyside, Armed Forces Day - H - 3.30pm
• 27 -
Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire, Memorial Park 100th anniversary - H - 3.45pm
July 2021
• 03 -
Wallop Wings and Wheels (flypast cancelled due to weather) - H
• 04 -
Epping Town Show, Essex (flypast) - H
• 04 -
Capel-Le-Ferne, Folkestone in Kent (flypast) - H
• 04 -
Shuttleworth Military Air Show Drive-in Display (flypast) - H
• 10 -
Summer Gala & Heritage Transport Show, Evesham, Worc's (flypast) - S - 2.00pm
• 11 -
Summer Gala & Heritage Transport Show, Evesham, Worc's (flypast) - D - 2.40pm
• 12 -
RAF Honington Practice Display - DSS
• 14 -
Canwick Ave, Lincoln - 85th anniversary of the formation of RAF Bomber Command (flypast) - D - 12.30pm
• 17 -
Kingsclere, Hampshire -
S - 2.26pm
• 17 -
Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire - H - Between 2.30pm & 3.30pm
• 18 -
Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire - H - Between 3.30pm & 4.30pm
• 22 -
Bardwell, Suffolk - S
• 22 -
RAF Honington - S
• 23 -
RAF Coningsby families Day (not open to the public)
• 24 - RAF Cosford Museum (Summer of Fun 'n' Flight) - H - 3.15pm
• 25 -
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton (Family Fun Day) - H - Between 12.30pm & 1.30pm
• 25 -
RAF Cosford Museum (Summer of Fun 'n' Flight) - H - 1.50pm
August 2021
• 07 -
East Kirkby Air Show -
DSS
• 08 -
Folkestone Air Display -
D - 2pm (now 3.30pm due to weather)
• 26 - Clacton Airshow (Clacton 150) -
SH - 2.45pm to 3pm
• 27 - Clacton Airshow (Clacton 150) -
SH - 1.30pm to 1.45pm
• 27 -
Sidmouth Air Show -
SS - 5.45pm
• 29 -
Little Gransden Air & Car Show -
S - 2.30pm
• 30 -
Lanc, Tank and Military Machines, East Kirkby AD, Lincolnshire -
S - 2.00pm
September 2021
• 02 -
Bournemouth Air Festival -
DSH
• 03 -
Bournemouth Air Festival -
DSH
• 04 -
Bournemouth Air Festival -
DSH - 1.00pm
• 05 -
Bournemouth Air Festival -
DSH - 1.45pm
• 05 - Largs Viking Festival, North Ayrshire -
S - 4.00pm & 4.45pm
• 09 -
Jersey International Air display -
D - 3.00pm
• 09 - Guernsey Air display - LSS - 10.45am Cancelled
• 11 -
Abingdon Air & Country Show -
S - 2.00pm
• 18 -
Duxford Battle of Britain Air Show LSH
• 19 -
Duxford Battle of Britain Air Show LSH
• 25 -
Lincolnshire's Lancaster Association (LLA) Members Day, Coningsby
October 2021
• 09 -
Duxford Flying Day 'Best of 2021' -
LSS - 2.35pm
LSSSH = The 'Dowding' formation consists of Lancaster, 3x Spitfires and a Hurricane.
L = Lancaster,
S = Spitfire,
H = Hurricane,
D = Dakota.
The BBMF Lancaster returned back home to Coningsby on Saturday 11th September 2021 after a period of maintenance at Duxford.
The BBMF schedule is usually announced at the end of March each year.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight or BBMF presently consist of twelve aircraft:- 6 Spitfires, 2 Hurricanes, Lancaster, Dakota, and 2 Chipmunks. They are operated by the Royal Air Force and have been based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire since 1976. The BBMF participate in scores of Air Displays, flypasts and events every year.
The display crew and groundcrew are all volunteers drawn from the Royal Air Force. The Flight routinely makes over 700 individual aircraft appearances during a year, ranging from major air shows to village fetes. The BBMF are usually represented at air shows with the Lancaster flanked by a Spitfire and Hurricane.
• BBMF Official website,
BBMF Facebook &
BBMF Twitter.
• BBMF page on this website.
• UK Air Show Calendar 2021.