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RAF Hawkinge
Hawkinge, Kent in England
Spitfire Mk Vs of No. 91 Squadron lined up at Hawkinge during May 1942
Royal Flying Corps (1915–1918) Royal Air Force (1918–1962)
Controlled by
RAF Fighter Command 1940-62
Site history
Built
1915 (1915)
In use
October 1915 - January 1962 (1962)
Fate
Site redeveloped for housing estate and museum
Battles/wars
First World War European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
165 metres (541 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
00/00
Grass field
Royal Air Force Hawkinge or more simply RAF Hawkinge is a former Royal Air Force station located 13.23 miles (21.29 km) east of Ashford, 2.2 miles (3.5 km) north of Folkestone, Kent and 7.1 miles (11.4 km) west of Dover, Kent, England. The airfield was used by both the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force during its lifetime and was involved during the Battle of Britain, as well as other important aerial battles during the Second World War and the early stages of aerial usage in war in the First World War.
Royal Air Force Hawkinge or more simply RAFHawkinge is a former Royal Air Force station located 13.23 miles (21.29 km) east of Ashford, 2.2 miles (3.5 km)...
village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill. During World War II, RAFHawkinge was the closest operational airfield...
Warwick Detachments at RAF Martlesham Heath, RAFHawkinge, RAF Shoreham and RAF Tangmere. 16 November 1941 – October 1944 – HQ at RAF Bircham Newton Lockheed...
night hours. The first major raid inland and against RAF airfields came on 12 August. RAFHawkinge, Lympne, Manston and radar stations at Pevensey, Rye...
1988, p. 103. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
the Kent Battle of Britain Museum at Hawkinge which commemorates the 2,938 aircrew of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm who took part in...
museums to the battle: one at Hawkinge in Kent and one at Stanmore in London, at the former RAF Bentley Priory. In 2015 the RAF created an online 'Battle...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
and RAF Martlesham Heath; Manston and Martlesham Heath each housed two squadrons, the remainder each housed one. Finally, there was RAFHawkinge, just...
bases open following the end of the war; Hawkinge was the one retained. In August 1919, the Royal Air Force (RAF) – as the RFC had by then become, moved...
served with Group HQ at Uxbridge. Three months as Commanding Officer at RAFHawkinge followed before a transfer to No. 12 Group HQ as a supplementary squadron...
weeks leading up to D-Day. After the war she served as a gate guardian at Hawkinge and Locking, and was recovered and refurbished in 1992 for the BBMF. From...
picked up the German raids. No. 11 Group scrambled one Spitfire from RAFHawkinge on the channel coast. Flown by No. 92 Squadron Pilot Officer Alan Wright...
Battle of Britain, the defence of the UK's airspace was divided up within RAF Fighter Command into four Groups, each comprising several airfields and squadrons...
No. 258 Squadron RAF Hurricanes claiming both shot down. One can be confirmed through British records as crash landing at RAFHawkinge. It took his tally...
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