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Battle of Britain airfield

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Sharing the history of a Battle of Britain airfield
  • Military Aviation Heritage Networks Trail
    Military Aviation Heritage Networks Trail
  • The RAF Kenley Heritage Trail on Kenley Common
    The RAF Kenley Heritage Trail on Kenley Common
  • RAF Kenley and Kenley Common today..
    RAF Kenley and Kenley Common today..

Discover the most intact airfield from WWII

The Kenley Revival Project is a Heritage Lottery Funded project which aims to preserve and protect the most intact fighter airfield from World War II. From our website you’ll be able to see the progress of our project, submit any stories or memories you have and find out how you can volunteer and come to one of our events. Find out more about us or get in touch.

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  • Flying Officer Arthur John Ball DFC - Memories of Kenley and Redhill in Early 1941

    Flying Officer Arthur John Ball DFC - Memories of Kenley and Redhill in Early 1941

  • The Queen's Park Heinkel

    The Queen's Park Heinkel

  • A Car Chase Through Croydon!

    A Car Chase Through Croydon!

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  • 615 Squadron - Air Raid on Wealdstone

    For the night of 18th October, 1940, the 615 Operations Book records the death of four airmen as a result of enemy action. They were stationed at RAF Northolt at the time but the Squadron had close connections with Kenley, being the local Auxiliary Squadron, with many personnel drawn from the local area.

  • Force 9 at Friston

    Kenley's role as a sector station meant its controllers were involved in the events leading to a tragic accident at Friston, on 18th October, 1941. 

  • Kenley's Bellman Hangar

    Bellman hangars were first designed in 1936. They were intended to be temporary structures, easily assembled and dismantled by unskilled ...
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    • Gary Greenwood on Hangar Fire 1978I was a cadet at 450 at the time and one of a team of cadets who were in the...
    • Faye Somerville on Kenley’s Few – Edward James “Eddy” EganThis is my great uncle. My Dad is Roy Edward Somerville. Eddie was his maternal uncle. Dad was born a...
    • Pete Johnson on Parachute and Cable? Schermuly NotThanks for the information about PAC rockets. I found this page after reading that a single unit was fitted to...
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