MANSTON Airport has been closed since 2014 – but is on track to reopen in the next few years. The Kent site that was used as ...

A care home honoured the wishes of two retired RAF pilots who wanted to return to the cockpit of planes they once flew. John Orminston, 77, and Alan Sansom, 89, were surprised with a visit to the RAF ...

That’s it!! Packed up munitions, going to join WAAF. After initial tests (wasn’t so dumb as I thought) there I was, a WAAF. Along with hundreds of like girls, did my square bashing in Morecambe. After ...

If ever there was a place in Kent which provides a view of the challenges we have faced past, present and future, then it is surely a sprawling site in Thanet. Regardless of your views on Manston ...

RAF Manston History Museum is based on the history of the airfield from 1916 to the present day. The Kent Battle of Britain Museum is an aviation museum located in Hawkinge, Kent, focused on the ...

A CLOSED airport has moved one step forward to reopening and could even eventually welcome back passenger planes. Having first opened in 1916 – and used as an RAF base – Manston Airport in Kent has ...