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Headcorn Aerodrome

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With the Americans having left, farming resumed in 1945 but this was not the end of the land's association with aircraft. In the late 1960s, the landowners started using part of the former wartime east-west runway site adjacent to the A274, for private flying. A grass airstrip was built aligned 10/28
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with a grass parking area for light aircraft. This led to the formation of Weald Air Services Limited, a small charter company, and later a flying school was set up and the airfield became a busy centre for light flying in the area.
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Ordinary Licence (Number P838) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee. It is still also sometimes known as Lashenden Aerodrome (the
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In 1942 it was requisitioned by the Airfields Board. It was named RAF Lashenden in an attempt to confuse the enemy (Lashenden is to the southwest of the field). Flying started in 1943.
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Aerial photograph of RAF Lashenden (Headcorn) ALG Airfield oriented north, P-51 Mustangs of the 354th Fighter Group are parked on grass around the perimeter, 22 May 1944.
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It was originally farmland, called Shenley Farm. Headcorn Aerodrome was first used for general aviation in 1927 when the local landowner flew with a group of friends.
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airfields that were built in France after D-Day, when the need for advanced landing fields became urgent as the Allied forces moved east across
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After the war, the airfield reverted to farmland until the present private grass airfield was opened in the late 1960s.
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Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History.
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The airfield is host to Headcorn Parachute Club, the only skydiving club in Kent. The club operates a
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and regularly flies to altitudes between 10,000 and 12,000 ft (3,000 and 3,700 m)
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Freeman, Roger A. (1994) UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now 1994. After the Battle
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Photographs of Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield from the Geograph British Isles project
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identifier is "LSH"). PPR (Prior Permission Required) is required to land.
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British Automobile Association (AA), (1978), Complete Atlas of Britain,
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and United States Army Air Forces before closing in September 1945.
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A small museum of aviation relics was established on the site, the
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to provide tactical air support for the ground forces landing in
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The Tiger Club was also based at the airfield after moving from
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Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912
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The USAAF Ninth Air Force required several temporary
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Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield
RAF Headcorn

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51°09′24″N 000°38′33″E / 51.15667°N 0.64250°E / 51.15667; 0.64250
EGKH is located in Kent
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England
NM
Maidstone
London
Second World War
Advanced Landing Ground
France
Germany
Royal Canadian Air Force
Advanced Landing Grounds
channel coast
Normandy Landings
France
No. 17 (Fighter) Wing RAF

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