It was located 0.7 miles (1.1 km) North of Saints, in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

The airfield was one of the many built to cope with the German offensive towards the river Marne which started in late May 1918.

From Saints, the group engaged in combat at the moment when the Allied armies were beginning to push back the German troops, a reverse move that would end with the Armistice on 11 November.

As the front line was moving eastwards, the Group used Coincy Aerodrome as an advance airfield, as soon as the German flying units had left it on 1 August.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency