I spotted a rumour circulating on the Time Team forum on the Channel 4 website that they might dig at RAF Kenley
I remembere there were plans by a different organisation to excavate the remains of the fire dump a couple of years ago but I believe they came to nothing.
What is there to find?
By: ian_ - 17th October 2007 at 14:30
The Air Intelligence Branch, or at least their collection, was stationed at Kenly at the end of the war. At some point all the data plates they had taken from axis aircraft were dumped. Lanscaping in the eighties left (quite literally) thousands of Luftwaffe, Japanese and even Italian data plates strewn about. Some even had their provenance written on the back in pencil. A gentleman from Croyden had animal feed sacks full of them. That might give Time Team something to look at!
By: jbs - 17th October 2007 at 13:43
Spitfire XVI TB885
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By: Cees Broere - 17th October 2007 at 13:38
Wasn’t the Shoreham Spitfire XVI TB… recovered from the kenley dump during the eighties?
Cees
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October 17, 2007 at 1:04 pm