Can anyone help with this ?

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Looked up and there were 35 RAF installation around the Kent area during WW2. Of those 35, it looks like 31 were active with aircraft from the RAF, RN and USAAC.
 
I'd struggle to name any beyond Manston. Which others? I'm still leaning toward Manston, given my guess at the age of this panel (late-war/post-war).

EDIT: Ashford and Kingsnorth look to be the only other two.
 
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I just ran a search using RAF installations near Kent England....Ended up with a Wiki page that listed all the RAF installations and then clicked on each one and browsed the presented history of each. A couple never dealt with aircraft, and a couple were closed to aircraft prior to the war. As it was from various wiki pages, I wouldn't consider it absolutely accurate, but enough to get an idea.
 
I think other than Ashford (406th P-47s as I recall) the others have only a tenuous link at best. Even Manston doesn't really have a WW2 heritage other than being a major diversion airfield. Kent's USAAF/USAAC history is relatively minor, with only Ashford's registering during the war in terms of major involvement of active units. Manston's 9-year USAF period post-war is the most notable.
 
Anyway hopefully the original poster will be along to clarify and maybe supply some part numbers.
 
That is a LH centre-section panel off a harrier GR.1/3/T.2/4/8 (+ Sea Harrier similar but this one not likely to be SHAR) Part no E281894
 

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The flip up panel with the single camloc is probably to connect the HISL / Grimes, but my memory is hazy on that. The raised part is the mount for the HISL or Grimes Anti-collision light (Grimes original HISL later). The cutout on the edge goes around the aerial mounted in the centre of the wing.
 
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Sabrejet said:
Not so: they've been all over the C-130 since Day 1. I doubt you'll find Camlocs on a UK aircraft. EDIT: according to Howmet's website, the brand has been in existence "more than 80 years", so WW2 is a possibility.
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Camlocs used extensively on UK aircraft
 
Thanks P pb43 for clearing that one up before we all disappeared down a different rabbit hole. It is not an easily photographed location but I did find this photo on Airliners.net which shows it well, interesting how brown the dark green paint that it should have worn originally has gone.
 
What is strange is the interior paint. this should be Yellow Chromate primer ( on UK Harriers at any rate, unsure of Spanish or USMC ones)
 
My Ercoupe has Camlocks. ERCO went to Camlock versus Dzus cowl fasteners in the late 1940's.

I'd guess that oblong hole is where an exhaust pipe comes through. I had to cut one like that in my Ercoupe lower cowl for the new exhaust pipes. The color is odd.

That egg shaped plate is not a nav light mounting but an access panel for getting to something inside, like checking the oil.
 
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Access to connect / dis-connect the HISL/Grimes
 
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