RAF Westhampnett

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name = Royal Air Force Station Westhampnett


caption = Station crest
dates = July 1940 - 13 May 1946
country = United Kingdom
branch = Royal Air Force
command_structure = British Armed Forces;
Fighter Command;
No. 11 Group RAF
type = Flying station
role = Fighter aircraft
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garrison = Chichester, West Sussex, England
garrison_label = Based near
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colors_label = Royal Air Force Ensign
march = Royal Air Force March Past
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battles = Battle of Britain
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Infobox Airport
name = RAF Westhampnett
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IATA = QUG
ICAO = EGHR
type = was Military, now Public
owner = was Ministry of Defence, now Chichester/Goodwood Aerodrome
operator = was Royal Air Force, now Chichester/Goodwood Airport
city-served =
location = West Sussex, England
elevation-f = 110
elevation-m = 34
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r1-number = 14R/32L
r1-length-f = 4,019
r1-length-m = 1,225
r1-surface = Grass
r2-number = 06/24
r2-length-f =
r2-length-m = 855
r2-surface = Grass
r3-number = 10/28
r3-length-f =
r3-length-m = 613
r3-surface = Grass
r4-number = 14L/32R
r4-length-f =
r4-length-m = 726
r4-surface = Grass (Nov-Mar only)
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The former Royal Air Force Station Westhampnett, more commonly known as RAF Westhampnett, was a Royal Air Force station, a military airfield, 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. Upon its closure by the RAF, Westhampnett airfield subsequently became the now world famous Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit.

RAF Westhampnett squadrons & aircraft

*No. 43 Squadron RAF
*No. 129 Squadron RAF
*No. 145 Squadron RAF - operating Hawker Hurricane
*No. 602 Squadron RAF - operating Supermarine Spitfire
*No. 610 Squadron RAF - operating Supermarine Spitfire

External links

*WAD|EGHR
* [http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/11group.html Royal Air Force - Battle of Britain 11 Group page]
* [http://worldwar2airfields.fotopic.net/c464320.html gallery of images of RAF Westhampnett]
* [http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/airfields/westhampnett.html The Wartime Memories Project - RAF Westhampnett]

ee also

*Royal Air Force station
*List of RAF stations
*List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
*List of aircraft of the RAF
*Chichester/Goodwood Airport
*Goodwood Circuit