The iconic Second World War aircraft of RAF Coningsby's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight WILL reach for the skies in the coming season after it won official permission to display.
The flight, which boasts Spitfires, Hurricanes and the second-only airworthy Lancaster in the world, has been awarded public display authority for 2016 after an inspection today, April 27.
The BBMF has around 90 display and flypast dates from May to September this year including the Queen's birthday in June, airshows in Belgium and Holland and the Royal International Air Tattoo.
This year the displays include a commentary, while fighter planes will begin their dazzling shows by performing a new breath-taking vertical loop manoeuvre.
But a question remains over whether the Lancaster will meet some of its early display dates due to work on its fuel tanks
The original Thumper III, 617 Squadron Lancaster B1, DV385, was one of a fleet of new Lancasters supplied to the squadron after the Dams Raid in 1943.
It took part in the first Tallboy bombing raid on the Saumur railway tunnel in France, two missions against the German battleship Tirpitz and several attacks on V rocket sites.
