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Whitfield

Major Airfield
Also known as: Dover
County: Kent
Current Status: Housing
Date: June 1911 - 1913 (last known date May, possibly closed by August); alleged minor use to circa 1914
Current Use: Disused
Used By: Civil
Landing Surface Type(s): Unpaved
Prominent People: Harriet Quimby
Aircraft Role(s): General aviation

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 31/01/2022):

  • Holiday Inn Dover – memorial plaque to early aviator Harriet Quimby
  • Whitfield Parish Council

The following alternative information/mass media sources have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 31/01/2022):

  • The Dover Historian

Video and photographs of ABCT’s Whitfield Airfield memorial plaque unveiling, Friday 17 March 2023. Courtesy of Ed Andrews

  

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Footage from the Circuit of Europe International Air Race at Hendon, Shoreham I and Whitfield. Courtesy of British Pathé

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