- Pen 11 is the second most southerly of the pens on the western side of the airfield and faces north east.
- It is known today as “The Tribute Pen”. The Tribute was unveiled in 2000 to honour all personnel who served at RAF Kenley from 1917 to 1959.
- Today, the pen is the most complete representation of what a pen would have looked like during World War II. However, the brickwork on the outer arm end walls was rebuilt in the 1990s and is of an incorrect shape. The entire centre section was reconstructed in 2017 and, again, the end brickwork was of an incorrect shape. It was rebuilt again in 2021 and is now much more representative of how it would have originally looked.
- The pen is of the smaller type found at Kenley, the original two bays would have been approximately 16.5m x 16.5m each.
- The left front doorway has access to the rear doorway. Large steel doors secure both ends of the shelter.
- All three doorways have single-element lintels.
- The rear retaining wall is of brick construction, approximately 50.7m longĀ and 0.5m tall at it’s highest point. It is 0.2m thick with twelve piers of 0.45m thickness for strength.
- The interior shelter is of pre-cast concrete construction.
- The centre arm end wall had a buttress fitted for additional strength, as now appears on the reconstructed arm.
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