I think the poster was asking for state run, or at least quasi state run historical flights. The USAF hertitage flight (and US navy) has privately owned warbirds crewed by civilian volunteers, fly in formation with active duty current aircraft, but I do not think the historic warbirds are owned by the Air Force, so perhaps not really what he was asking about. I believe the current active duty aircraft that do these demonstrations are the designated demonstration pilots for each airshow season- they do their solo demo flight and the heritage flight, often without landing in between. Most years there are dedicated demo flight crews for the main modern aircraft (F-22, F-15, F-16, A-10, F-18, etc) and for some there are east/west coast teams.
So I don't think the USAF heritage flight is much like the BBMF, but happy to be correced.
Last edited by sandiego89; 7th Oct 2014 at 12:56.