<p>One of the biggest crowds to see the Red Arrows was in Lisbon on 13 June 1973, when there was a crowd of 650,000 people, a statistic exceeded in 1996 in Sydney.[citation needed]
</p><p>The greatest number of displays flown in any year was in 1995, when the Red Arrows performed 136 times. The smallest number of displays in one year was in 1975, after the 1973 oil crisis limited their appearances. At a charity auction in 2008, a British woman paid £1.5 million to fly with them.[18]
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By the end of the 2009 season, the Red Arrows had performed a total of 4,269 displays in 53 countries.[19] The 4,000th display was at RAF Leuchars during the Battle of Britain Airshow in September 2006.
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