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    Interpreting the two Hansard hits and the above information, it appears that Dover Aero Club lost the main purpose of its brand new Aerodrome under the Aerial Navigation Acts of 1911 and 1913. These Acts restricted the flights to the continent and attempted to regulate flights with the UK. Hansard also records that the area around the Dover Aerodrome is to be 'scheduled' in August 1913, that the site had been rendered useless and the owners suffered financial loss.

    Having just set up a brand new aerodrome at Whitfield this must have come as blow hence the calls in Hansard to compensate the club. They were regarded as a 'special case' but there is no record as to whether the owners received any.

    Is it possible then that Dover Aerodrome at Whitfield only briefly existed in function from 1911-1913?

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