Clifford Rodney Spink was born on 17 May 1946 and is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer, who is a Spitfire display pilot on the national air display circuit.
10 Facts About Cliff Spink
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Cliff Spink served as the 23rd Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps, the last but one officer to hold the post.
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Later training took place on the Gnat and the Hunter, before Cliff Spink was posted to his first frontline tour on No 111 Squadron flying the Lightning.
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Cliff Spink was later posted to No 56 Squadron in Cyprus before returning to No 111 Squadron.
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Cliff Spink served as the Commanding Officer of No 74 Squadron before being posted to the South Atlantic in 1989 as the Officer Commanding RAF Mount Pleasant on the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands.
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In 1990 Cliff Spink underwent conversion training to the Tornado before becoming Station Commander at RAF Coningsby.
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In 1991 Cliff Spink served as the RAF's Tornado Detachment Commander during the first Gulf War.
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Cliff Spink served as the last but one Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps, from 1993 until 1995.
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Cliff Spink remains the honorary President of the Royal Observer Corps Association.
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Cliff Spink is a Vice-Patron of the Royal Air Force Halton Apprentices Association Old Haltonians.