• Source: RAF Westhampnett

Royal Air Force Westhampnett or more simply RAF Westhampnett is a former Royal Air Force satellite station, located in the village of Westhampnett near Chichester, in the English County of West Sussex.
It was built as an emergency landing airfield for fighter aircraft, as a satellite station to RAF Tangmere. Built on land belonging to the Goodwood Estate, the then landowner, the Duke of Richmond, Frederick Gordon-Lennox retained the Title Deed to the land.




History






= Royal Air Force use

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Squadrons

No. 41 Squadron RAF., from RAF Merston 16 December 1941, to RAF Merston 1 April 1942; operating Supermarine Spitfire Vb
No. 43 Squadron RAF
No. 65 Squadron RAF (1941)
No. 91 Squadron RAF (1943)
No. 118 Squadron RAF (1943 & 1944)
No. 124 Squadron RAF (1942 & 1944)
No. 129 Squadron RAF (1941 & 1942)
No. 130 Squadron RAF (1944)
No. 131 Squadron RAF (1942-43)
No. 145 Squadron RAF - operating Hawker Hurricane. (1940)
No. 167 Squadron RAF (1943)
No. 174 Squadron RAF (1943-44)
No. 175 Squadron RAF (1944)
No. 184 Squadron RAF (1944)
No. 245 Squadron RAF (1943-44)
No. 302 Polish Fighter Squadron (1940-41)
No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron (1944)
No. 340 Squadron RAF (1942)
No. 350 (Belgian) Squadron (1944)
No. 402 Squadron RCAF (1944)
No. 416 Squadron RCAF (1942)
No. 441 Squadron RCAF (1944)
No. 442 Squadron RCAF (1944)
No. 443 Squadron RCAF (1944)
No. 485 (NZ) Squadron RAF (1943)
No. 501 Squadron RAF (1943 & 1944)
No. 602 Squadron RAF - operating Supermarine Spitfire (1940)
No. 610 Squadron RAF - operating Supermarine Spitfire (1941, 1943 & 1944)
No. 614 Squadron RAF
No. 616 Squadron RAF
787 Naval Air Squadron.



Units

No. 83 Group Support Unit during November 1944
No. 121 Airfield RAF between October 1943 and April 1944
No. 144 (RCAF) Airfield RAF during April 1944
No. 402 Air Stores Park between October 1943 and January 1944
Detachment of No. 1493 (Fighter) Gunnery Flight between June and July 1943
Air Sea Rescue Flight RAF, Merston/Westhampnett during November 1941




= United States Army Air Forces

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31st Fighter Group between 1 August 1942 and 8 November 1942.




Current use


Upon its closure by the RAF, Westhampnett airfield subsequently became the Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit and Chichester/Goodwood Airport.




See also


List of former Royal Air Force stations
Goodwood Circuit




References






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= Bibliography

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Falconer, J. (2012). RAF Airfields of World War 2. UK: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-349-5.
Hillier, Mark (2015). A Fighter Command Station at War: A Photographic Record of RAF Westhampnett from the Battle of Britain to D-Day and Beyond. Barnsley: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-47384-468-1.
Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310-053-6.
Maurer, M. Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. USAF Historical Division. Washington D.C., USA: Zenger Publishing Co., Inc, 1980. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
Sturtivant, R.; Ballance, T. (1994). The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-223-8.
Sturtivant, R.; Hamlin, J. (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.




External links



Royal Air Force - Battle of Britain 11 Group page
Gallery of images of RAF Westhampnett
The Wartime Memories Project - RAF Westhampnett

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• RAF Westhampnett
• Westhampnett
• No. 303 Squadron RAF
• Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer)
• Douglas Bader
• No. 118 Squadron RAF
• No. 11 Group RAF
• Operation Jericho
• No. 610 Squadron RAF
• Supermarine Spitfire operational history