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Battersea Park

Major
Also known as: Battersea Park Landing Ground / RNAS Battersea Park
County: Greater London
Current Status: Parkland (location not known)
Date: October 1914 - 1915
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RNAS
Landing Surface Types: Unpaved
Aircraft Roles: Fighter

Battersea Park was one of several very early interim World War One ELGs established on London’s parks for night patrols, particularly RNAS aircraft operated from Hendon by Claude Grahame-White and other pilots.

 

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 31/12/2015):

  • Wandsworth Historical Society

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