epw022358 ENGLAND (1928). Hainault Farm and the Hainault Tarpaulin Works, Hainault, 1928

A close up aerial photograph of what had been Hainault Farm Aerodrome, Hangars and associated buildings when owned by John Smith & Company as their Hainault Works.

No. 44 Sqn. (Home Defense) was formed at Hainault Farm and remained there for the duration of first World War.

I agree this is definitely the old RFC/RAF Hainault Farm Aerodrome. Sopwith Camels were based there to intercept the German Gotha bombers raiding London. It was closed as an active airfield after the end of the 1st WW in 1919. Soon after this the aerodrome buildings were purchased by by John Smith & Co Ltd of Shaftesbury Avenue, as their new Hainault Works. Hence there aren't any windsocks or any other identification of an active airfield. The airfield land reverted to farm land after the airfield closed. John Smith's manufactured tents, tarpaulins, marquees, aircraft hangars and other heavy textile products.

It was not an airfield during WW2. It continued as the John Smith & Co factory becoming part of the Black & Edgington Group in about the 1960s. A new airfield RAF Fairlop with hard runways and perimeter track was built nearby during WW2.

It was still in use in ww2

Hainault Farm,Hainault Rd,not sure of postal town,but NE of Aldborough Hatch,Essex.This was the site of Chigwell airfield in WW2.

Definitely Hainault Farm at Ilford/Chigwell, a World War I airfield

This is a view looking north-east over Hainault Farm in Hainault Road, Ilford, Essex (in the London Borough of Redbridge). The land, and some of the buildings, on the far side of the road, north-east of the farm, were part of the Royal Flying Corps Hainault Farm aerodrome in the First World War. Hainault Road itself is not a Roman road, but dates from the mid 1850s, like the farm, when much of Hainault Forest was disafforested and turned over to agriculture. Several long straight roads now bisect the area of the former forest.