| RAF Kingsnorth USAAF Station AAF-418 &sq=&lang=&file=File:Air_Force_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg){kind=small} &sq=&lang=&file=File:Patch9thusaaf.png) | |||||||||
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| Kingsnorth, Kent in England | |||||||||
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Kingsnorth-12may44.jpg) Kingsnorth airfield, 12 May 1944, photo oriented to the west (top), taken about three weeks before D-Day. The crossroads in the middle of the picture is Bliby Corner, with Sevington Lane running left-right and Chequertree Lane going top-bottom. | |||||||||
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Kent_UK_location_map.svg)  RAF Kingsnorth Shown within Kent &sq=&lang=&file=File:United_Kingdom_adm_location_map.svg) RAF Kingsnorth RAF Kingsnorth (the United Kingdom) | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°6′18″N 0°53′20″E / 51.10500°N 0.88889°E | ||||||||
| Type | RAF advanced landing ground | ||||||||
| Code | IN[1] | ||||||||
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| Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force United States Army Air Forces 1944 | ||||||||
| Controlled by | RAF Fighter Command 1943-44 * No. 83 Group RAF RAF Second Tactical Air Force Ninth Air Force | ||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||
| Built | 1943 | ||||||||
| Built by | RAF Airfield Construction Service | ||||||||
| In use | July 1943 - January 1945 | ||||||||
| Battles/wars | European theatre of World War II | ||||||||
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| Elevation | 38 metres (125 ft)[1] AMSL | ||||||||
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Royal Air Force Kingsnorth or more simply RAF Kingsnorth is a former Royal Air Force advanced landing ground in Kent, England. It was at Bliby Corner approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Ashford. It is not to be confused with RNAS Kingsnorth, later RAF Kingsnorth, which was an airship station in operation during and after the First World War.
Opened in 1943, Kingsnorth was one of a number of prototype temporary Advanced Landing Ground airfields built, with more to be built in France after D-Day, as the Allied forces moved east across France and Germany. Kingsnorth was used by British, Dominion and the United States Army Air Forces until it was closed in September 1944.
Today the airfield is agricultural land with few remains visible on the ground, although sections of the runways can clearly be made out on aerial and satellite photos.
- ^ a b Falconer 2012, p. 121.