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RAF Westhampnett USAAF Station AAF-352
Westhampnett,West Sussex in England
Aerial photograph of RAF Westhampnet, the technical site is to the right, 19 April 1946
Site information
Type	Royal Air Force station
Code	WQ[1]
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force United States Army Air Forces 1942
Controlled by	RAF Fighter Command *No. 11 Group RAF 1938-42 & 1942-45 RAF Second Tactical Air Force *No. 83 Group RAF
Location
RAF Westhampnett Shown within West Sussex
Coordinates	50°51′40″N000°45′33″W / 50.86111°N 0.75917°W /50.86111; -0.75917
Site history
Built	1938 (1938) & 1940
In use	July 1940 - 1946 (1946)
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation	33 metres (108 ft)[1]AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 06/24 855 metres (2,805 ft) Grass 10/28 613 metres (2,011 ft) Grass 14/32 1,300 metres (4,265 ft) Grass
Sources: UKAIP atNATS[2]

Royal Air Force Westhampnett or more simplyRAF Westhampnett is a formerRoyal Air Forcesatellite station, located in the village ofWesthampnett nearChichester, in theEnglishCounty ofWest Sussex.

It was built as an emergency landing airfield forfighter aircraft, as a satellite station toRAF Tangmere. Built on land belonging to theGoodwood Estate, the then landowner, the Duke of Richmond,Frederick Gordon-Lennox retained the Title Deed to the land.

• No. 41 Squadron RAF.,^[3] from RAF Merston 16 December 1941, to RAF Merston 1 April 1942; operatingSupermarine Spitfire Vb
• No. 43 (China-British) Squadron RAF^[4]
• No. 65 (East India) Squadron RAF^[5] (1941)
• No. 91 (Nigeria) Squadron RAF^[6] (1943)
• No. 118 Squadron RAF^[7] (1943 & 1944)
• No. 124 (Baroda) Squadron RAF^[8] (1942 & 1944)
• No. 129 (Mysore) Squadron RAF^[9] (1941 & 1942)
• No. 130 (Punjab) Squadron RAF^[9] (1944)
• No. 131 (County of Kent) Squadron RAF^[9] (1942-43)
• No. 145 Squadron RAF - operatingHawker Hurricane.^[10] (1940)
• No. 167 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF^[11] (1943)
• No. 174 (Mauritius) Squadron RAF^[12] (1943-44)
• No. 175 Squadron RAF^[12] (1944)
• No. 184 Squadron RAF^[13] (1944)
• No. 245 (Northern Rhodesian) Squadron RAF^[14] (1943-44)
• No. 302 Polish Fighter Squadron^[15] (1940-41)
• No. 303 Squadron RAF^[16] (1944)
• No. 340 (GC IV/2 Île-de-France) Squadron RAF^[17] (1942)
• No. 350 (Belgian) Squadron^[18] (1944)
• No. 402 Squadron RCAF^[19] (1944)
• No. 416 Squadron RCAF^[20] (1942)
• No. 441 Squadron RCAF^[21] (1944)
• No. 442 Squadron RCAF^[21] (1944)
• No. 443 Squadron RCAF^[21] (1944)
• No. 485 (NZ) Squadron RAF^[22] (1943)
• No. 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron AAF^[23] (1943 & 1944)
• No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron AAF - operatingSupermarine Spitfire^[24] (1940)
• No. 610 (County of Chester) Squadron AAF - operatingSupermarine Spitfire^[25] (1941, 1943 & 1944)
• No. 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron AAF^[25]
• No. 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron AAF^[25]
• 787 Naval Air Squadron.^[26][27]

• No. 83 Group Support Unit during November 1944^[28]
• No. 121 Airfield Headquarters RAF between October 1943 and April 1944^[29]
• No. 144 (RCAF) Airfield Headquarters RAF during April 1944^[29]
• No. 402 Air Stores Park between October 1943 and January 1944^[30]
• Detachment of No. 1493 (Fighter) Gunnery Flight between June and July 1943^[31]
• Air Sea Rescue Flight RAF, Merston/Westhampnett during November 1941^[32]
• No. 1307 Mobile Wing RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2703 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2704 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2709 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2713 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2742 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2761 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2766 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2778 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2793 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 2795 Squadron RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 4001 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment^[26]
• No. 4067 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment^[26]

• 31st Fighter Group between 1 August 1942 and 8 November 1942.^[33]

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

• List of former Royal Air Force stations
• Goodwood Circuit

• 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.

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• Royal Air Force - Battle of Britain 11 Group page
• Gallery of images of RAF Westhampnett^{[permanent dead link]}
• The Wartime Memories Project - RAF Westhampnett

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• Royal Air Force stations in West Sussex
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