The Biggin Hill Spitfire Factory is a restoration facility dedicated to returning Spitfires back to the skies. The Spitfire Factory was founded in early 2011 under the name of The Spitfire Company (Biggin Hill) Limited, with the purpose of restoring a single Spitfire MK1 X4650 and subsequently ...
The then farmland was high, fog-free and flat, and contained a huge undivided field on the edge of the North Downs which later became the airfield. Haphazard Growth The town of Biggin Hill had begun to develop in 1898 when the Aperfield estate was bought by Frederic Dougal. He sold off ...