Rye flying sites
Note: This map shows only my estimation of where the WW1 airfield was situated.
Could anybody be kind enough to confirm this, and if not, advise a more accurate location?
RYE see also CASTLE WATER
RYE see also SALTS FARM
RYE HARBOUR: Private aerodrome or Flying Ground?
Operated by: Noel Pemberton-Billing only?
Period of operation: 1909 only?
NOTES: It would seem that Mr Pemberton-Billing , (who later formed Supermarine), possibly trying to fly a 1908 Howard-Wright type aircraft, used a site near, (or in, it could have been fitted with floats?), RYE HARBOUR to extend the early trials held at FAMBRIDGE in ESSEX.
RYE: Temporary airfield?
NOTES: Records state that in early 1910 a Mr W O Manning was also operating a Howard-Wright biplane. (Perhaps also on floats?). Presumably from the same site listed above - wherever that was?
RYE: Military Landing Ground
Military users: RFC/RAF
50 & 112 (Home Defence) Sqdns
Location: Just S of the A259, and E of Rye
Period of operation: 1916 to 1919
Site area: 33 acres 137 x 530
NOTES: Apparently used only as a Night Landing Ground.
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