Monument record TQ 54 NW 365 - Newchurch Advanced Landing Ground

Penkridge Airfield, Kent, TQ 518 468, opened in 1942 and closed in 1945. According to the sketch plan accompanying the Willis and Holliss gazetteer, the airfield lay to the north of the B2027 road, west of Charcott and Chiddingstone Causeway. Penhurst was a grass landing ground belonging to the Biggin Hill sector of 11 Group Royal Air Force Fighter Command. There were no aircraft hangars but there was temporary accommodation for personnel, in December 1944, these numbered 192 men. (1)

Note that the position of the aircraft in this source is different to source 1 (TQ 522 442).
The site of a First World War military airfield operational from 1917 until 1919. It was used as a civil airfield in the late 1920s and early 1930s and then reverted again to a military airfield during the Second World War (1942 - 1945).
During the First World War the 72 acre site contained two hangars (130 x 60 ft), huts and tented accommodation for the personnel. It was used as a training landing ground by the Number 2 Wireless School which had a fleet of DH6s. The school was disbanded in spring 1919 and the airfield was dismantled and closed soon after.
From 1942 Penhurst was in use again as a military airfield. It was the base for 653 Squadron of Auster aircraft. In 1945 the airfield was finally abandoned. (2)

Nothing of the airfield remains except for two aircraft buildings which may be nissen huts. (3)

<4> Ken Delve, 2005, The Military airfields of Britain; Southern England, Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex (Monograph). SKE31935.

<1-3> The Military Airfields of Britain. Southern England: Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex (Unspecified Type). SWX22295.