page_title: Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
section_title: Chipmunks
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Britain Memorial Flight / Aircraft / Chipmunks
caption_attribution_description: English: Chipmunk for tail dragger training, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby
context_page_description: The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is a Royal Air Force flight which provides an aerial display group usually comprising an Avro Lancaster, a Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane. The aircraft are regularly seen at events commemorating the Second World War and upon British State occasions, notably Trooping the Colour, celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday in 2006, as well as the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton in 2011 and at air displays throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.
  The flight is administratively part of No. 1 Group RAF, flying out of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire.
context_section_description: The two Chipmunks (WG486 and WK518), are the last in RAF service, but are not intended for display use; rather, they serve to give pilots experience in flying aircraft with a tailwheel landing gear, a design that has now vanished from the modern RAF fleet. Chipmunk WG486 flew reconnaissance missions over East Germany, as part of the RAF Gatow Station Flight, in co-operation with the British Commander-in-Chief's Mission to the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, commonly known as BRIXMIS.
caption: DHC-1 Chipmunk T10 WG486 in 2010
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