Headcorn Aerodrome

Many of the people that I am in regular contact with will know of my love for my community and some particular and very special reasons for it. Obviously beautiful countryside, landscape, and some lovely villages springs to mind first with some significant architecture and wonderful farming, but the Ward  for which I am elected is bang in the middle of an area with Castles like Sissinghurst,  Leeds and Sutton Valence. It also has a Ladies prison and Aerodrome. That Aerodrome was active in the 2nd World War and was known as Lashenden and had many allies as residents, mainly the USA and Canada.

I have always supported the Aerodrome where I can and usually lead the Civic Remembrance part of the Battle of Britain Show. Over the years we have had Embassy Officials and Military Attaches from USA, Canada and Poland attend our show.  We are now planning the 2025 event.

But in the last week I have been pleased to greet a new business Mid Kent Aviation to the Aerodrome and celebrate the "opening" of a new play area  to the Aerodrome.   

And the work is done locally at a very local company with local labour. Get up close and there is an original Spitfire "part dashboard" too. Needless to say we got our resident Spitfire pilot "Parky" to sit in the cockpit and he loved it.  

Mid Kent Aviation fly microlights and train pilots for what are very light planes. This is Ikarus. 

A  pic from a very memorable Battle Of Britain Event when Poland proved to be great allies and friends