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| *The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare. | |
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 Air Marshal Dick Johns CB CBE LVO *Signature Value : £30 | Air Officer Commanding No.1 Group. Commanded No.3 (F) Sqn and the RAF Germany Harrier Force. |
 Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Hayr KCB KBE AFC* *Signature Value : £35 | Former Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff. Commanded the first RAF Harrier Squadron, No.1 (F) Sqn, in March 1969. |
  Air Marshal Sir Peter Squire DFC AFC (deceased) *Signature Value : £40 | Air Marshal Sir Peter Squire began his operational flying with No. 20 Squadron flying Hunters in Singapore. He became an instructor on the Hunter before flying Gnats as a member of the Red Arrows; later returning to operational flying on the Harrier. In 1981 he took command of No. 1 Squadron at RAF Wittering and during the Falklands conflict, led the Squadron into action for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He stayed with the Air Force, becoming Chief of Air Staff in 2000 before retirement in 2003. He died on 19th February 2018. |
 Bill Bedford OBE AFC FRAeS *Signature Value : £20 | Experimental, then Chief Test Pilot, Hawker Aircraft Ltd, 1951 to 1967. He flew the first flights of P1127, Kestrel and Harrier VSTOL aircraft. |
 Chris Roberts *Signature Value : £15 | Chief Test Pilot, Harrier flight test centre, BAe Dunsfold. |
 Group Captain Chris Burwell MBE *Signature Value : £25 | Officer Commanding No.1 (F) Sqn. Flew the first front-line Harrier GR7 night EO sortie in November 1992. |
 Group Captain Pete Day AFC *Signature Value : £30 | Officer Commanding RAF Wittering. Since September 1970, amassed highest total Harrier flight hours - 3500. |
  John Farley OBE (deceased) *Signature Value : £35 | John Farley is a well known test pilot who has flown all versions of the Harrier family. After an engineering apprenticeship at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough in 1950, he joined the RAF for pilot training. He completed a tour flying Hunters, and after a time as flying instructor at Cranwell, he joined the Empire Test Pilots School at RAE Bedford. As project test pilot on the P1127 in 1964, he started what was to become 19 years of Harrier test flying. In his career he has flown over 80 types of aircraft and in 1990 became the first western pilot invited to fly the Russian Mig-29. He died on 13th June 2018. |
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