Penshurst Airfield was an airfield in operation between 1916–36 and 1940–46. Initially a military airfield, after the First World War it was used as an...
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Chiddingstone Causeway. Penshurst Airfield was located close to the station, but within the parish of Leigh. It opened in 1916 as a military airfield, and served...
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crashed while the pilot attempted to make an emergency landing at Penshurst Airfield. Both crew members and all five passengers were killed. This was the...
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Penshurst is a village in Kent, England Penshurst Place, a historic building in that village Penshurst Airfield, an airfield and RAF base in the early...
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London Charing Cross via Redhill. Penshurst station was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 26 May 1842. Penshurst Airfield, which was in operation from...
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Messerschmitt Bf 109 was shot and forced to land on Penshurst airfield, a temporary air-strip near Penshurst. The pilot of the Spitfire was flying officer Peter...
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Croydon Airport (category Royal Flying Corps airfields)
Peace Conference. In 1923, flights to Berlin Tempelhof Airport began. Penshurst Airfield was an alternative destination for airliners when Croydon was closed...
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1969. The former Penshurst Airfield was located within the parish, to the south of Charcott. It operated mainly as a military airfield in 1916–1936 and...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (section Overseas Royal Flying Corps (WWI) and British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (WWII) airfields)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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Ronald Waters, manager of Home Counties Aircraft Service (based at Penshurst Airfield in Kent), who had come into possession of Gatwick Aerodrome, got a...
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Fleas, following a fatal crash on 4 May 1936 at an air display at Penshurst Airfield, Kent. When on approach to land, the pilot would push the stick forward...
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changing at Redhill. Penshurst Airfield, which was in operation from 1916 to 1936, and again from 1940 to 1946 as RAF Penshurst, was within ¼ mile (400 m)...
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A.H. Anderson. On 4 May 1936, a HM.14 (G-AEEW) crashed fatally at Penshurst Airfield, pilot Ambrose M. Cowell. On 21 May 1936, a HM.14 (G-AEBS) crashed...
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October 1926 Air Union Blériot 155 crash, on 2 October 1926 near Penshurst Airfield This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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people on board. The pilot was trying to make an emergency landing at Penshurst Airfield. Blériot 155 Four-engined airliner. Blériot 113 Projected bomber version...
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was entombed in the Sidney family vault at St. John the Baptist Church, Penshurst, in the county of Kent. Gort married Corinna Katherine Vereker, his second...
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RCAF Station Winisk RCAF Station St. Margarets Kandahar Air Base Relief airfield for No. 6 Service Flying Training School/RCAF Station Dunnville RCAF Detachment...
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Lympne Airport (redirect from Lympne airfield)
military and later civil airfield (IATA: LYM, ICAO: EGMK), at Lympne, Kent, United Kingdom, which operated from 1916 to 1984. The airfield was built out of necessity...
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aircraft caught fire in mid-air during an attempted emergency landing at Penshurst Airfield, killing all seven on board; this was the first in-flight fire to...
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Sydney Morning Herald, 1 May 2008 Mary Alexander (11 November 2011). "Penshurst crash scene". The Standard. "No survivors in crash of missing vintage...
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killed. 2 May – Farman F.63 Goliath F-ADCA of Air Union crash-landed at Penshurst, Kent after encountering a heavy squall whilst on a flight from Le Bourget...
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Ramsgate Airport was a civil airfield at Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom which opened in July 1935. It was briefly taken over by the Royal Air Force in...
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people on board. On 1 May 1930, Farman F.63 Goliath F-ADCA crashed at Penshurst, Kent after encountering a heavy squall whilst on a flight form Le Bourget...
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May 1930 Farman F.63bis Goliath F-ADCA Lorraine of Air Union crashed at Penshurst, Kent after encountering a heavy squall whilst on a flight from Le Bourget...
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and 53 Divisions. On 7 September 1942 the Squadron transferred to RAF Penshurst in Kent. During March 1943 the unit took part, with other AOP Squadrons...
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"ASN Aircraft accident British Aerospace BAe-748-398 Srs. 2B 5Y-YKM Tonj Airfield". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 5 September 2022. Ranter, Harro. "ASN...
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II house and garden, home of the architect Sir Herbert Baker Penshurst Place Penshurst Sevenoaks Historic house Medieval mansion and gardens, state rooms...
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