On 7th November, 1929, Sergeant Francis Lawrence White and Flying Officer Reginald Stradling Collins, both of No.23 squadron, Kenley, had ...
We are very grateful to Roger Packham, from The Bourne Society, for his permission to show these postcards from his ...
On 1st July, 1928, the RAF lost one of it’s brightest stars in a freak accident at Clifton, Bedfordshire. Flight Lieutenant Harold ...
On 3rd June, 1927, twelve days after becoming the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic, and having completed ...
On Christmas Day in 1926, Pilot Officer Arthur Leslie Holden and Pilot Officer Griffiths of No.32 squadron, RAF Kenley, set off ...
On 21st September, 1926… Major Clarence L. Tinker, Assistant Military Attache for Aviation at the U.S. Embassy and Commander Robert Andrew ...
On the 16th May, 1921, RAF Kenley was visited by Crown Prince (soon to be Emperor) Hirohito of Japan.
On the 22nd April, 1927, David D’Arcy Greig DFC, a test pilot attached to 24 squadron, RAF Kenley, had a ...
On 25th August 1930, a promising young graduate from the RAF College at Cranwell arrived at Kenley to join his first squadron, No.23, flying the Gloster Gamecock.
On 8th February 1919, pilot Lieutenant Bossoutrot flew from Toussus-le-Noble to Kenley in a Farman F60 Goliath, with thirteen military ...
On 24th April, 1929, two Welshmen, Squadron Leader Arthur Jones-Williams OBE, Croix de Guerre, MC and Bar (then serving with ...
On 4th March 1925, Flying Officer Alexander H. Montgomery of 32 squadron, was instructed to make a practice flight from ...
At 2pm on the 3rd May, 1926, Kenley’s Station Commander addressed all airmen on their duties for the period of ...
On 12th May, 1919, two intrepid flyers arrived at Kenley after a trip to Madrid. Here is the story from ...
On the night of 23rd September, in 1916 three Zeppelins targeted London. The last one to come inland, L31, commanded ...
