Monument record 0851500000 - Denham Airfield

Denham airfield was opened in September 1917 and until January 1918 housed Nos 5 and 6 Schools of Military Aeronautics. It was closed at the end of the First World War (B1).
In January 1935 the site of the former Royal Flying Corps airfield was purchased by Dr Miles Bickerton with a view to opening a semi-private airfield to be called Hawksridge. Martin-Baker Aircraft Co Ltd set up its workshops and flew its MB.1 two-seat experimental aircraft in March 1935. Denham airfield was taken over by the RAF after the outbreak of the Second World War and became a satellite landing ground for 21 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Booker (B2).
Denham served as a Relief Landing Ground from 18 November 1941 until 9 July 1945. Now a base for light aircraft with restaurant and club facilities (B1).
The landing surface is grass, the hangars were one Bessoneau and three blister. There was one hardstanding (B3).
Martin-Baker using Denham from August 1929, original facilities comprising a shed and three huts with flight testing and research carried out at Chalgrove in Oxfordshire. During WWII when the airfield was reactivated for military use, two Bellman and three Blister hangars were erected. The runways remained grass and were N-S (3,150 feet), NE-SW (2,580 feet), E-W (4,150 feet) and NW-SE (2,400 feet)(B4).
Detailed history of airfield (B6).
A World War II blister hangar with attached nissen hut still survives close to Hangar Lane, at the NW corner of the airfield. A wooden ?World War I side-opening hangar survived on the south side of Hangar Lane until 2013, when it was demolished and replaced with modern hangars. The mid-1930s former clubhouse and groundsman's cottage at the NE corner of of the airfield S, of the junction of Tilehouse Lane and Hangar Lane was demolished in 2023 or 2024. The control tower and attached flying school at the SE corner of the airfield appear to have been refurbished (B7).