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Old 14th May 2009, 13:25
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Another possible candidate is Camber Aerodrome, near Rye, in East Sussex. I say possible because I have not established whether there was a grass field there or the flying was off the sands. There seems to have been aerial activity there before WW2. A Mr Ogilvie is recorded as keeping a Short Wright biplane, a Voisin type aeroplane and a full size glider there in 1910. Zenith Airways were operating at least one, but possibly four, three seat Avro 504Ns from there in 1935/36. I offer it as an abandoned airfield candidate because in 1935 "the Manager, Camber Aerodrome, Rye" was advertising in Flight for a general engineer. Does anyone know whether there was an airfield, in the accepted sense, at Camber and, if so, does anyone know anything more about it? Suffice to say modern aerial views of the site reveal no evidence of former aviation activity.
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