Mike Chatterton Royal British Legion One Million WW2 Poppies Hand Signed FDC

STB026 This is stunning souvenir of the 75th Anniversary Of The Royal British Legion hand signed by Mike Chatterton historic RAF pilot who has flown over one million poppies over Buckingham Palace (see below) and his father was a WW2 veteran and is in mint condition.

Mike left the RAF in 2013 after 40 years service as a multi engine pilot and with over 10,000 flying hours on Shackleton, Lancaster (BBMF), Nimrod.

Mike was posted to RAF Coningsby as an Operations Officer and flying BBMF aircraft as a Secondary Duty. Mike's period of duty on BBMF covered all the 50th anniversaries of WW2 and meant that he took part in many very special events including dropping a million poppies on Buckingham Palace for VJ50. During his 9 years on BBMF Mike accumulated 460 hours on the Lancaster and also flew the Devon, Dakota, and Chipmunk which he says were all great fun.

When the Nimrod was taken out of service in 2011 Mike had the doubtful honour of being the World's last Nimrod pilot when he delivered the last two aircraft to museums.

When NX611 started taxy runs at East Kirkby in 1995 Mike was the first pilot at the controls and has remained with us ever since.

Mike is particularly proud to operate our Lancaster at East Kirkby as his father was based here in 1945 as a Lancaster Pilot Instructor with 57 and 630 Sqns.