RAF Merston

Royal Air Force Merston or more simply RAF Merston is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located in West Sussex, England.

History
RAF Merston was built In May 1941, as a grass airfield satellite to the neighbouring RAF Tangmere. The site was used by RAF fighter squadrons from May 1941 to August 1942. The site briefly closed for redevelopment in from August 1942 until its reopening in May 1943 as an RAF fighter station. It was used by the Royal Navy as a storage site for surplus war equipment until it closed on 13 November 1945.

Units
The following squadrons were here at some point: • No. 41 Squadron RAF (1941 & 1942)

• No. 80 Squadron RAF (1944)

• No. 118 Squadron RAF (1943)

• No. 130 Squadron RAF (1944)

• No. 131 Squadron RAF (1942)

• No. 145 Squadron RAF (1941)

• No. 174 Squadron RAF (1943)

• No. 181 Squadron RAF (1943 & 1944)

• No. 182 Squadron RAF (1943 & 1944)

• No. 184 Squadron RAF (1943)

• No. 229 Squadron RAF (1944)

• No. 232 Squadron RAF

• No. 247 Squadron RAF (1943 & 1944)

• No. 274 Squadron RAF (1944)

• No. 303 Squadron RAF (1944)

• No. 329 Squadron RAF (1944)

• No. 340 Squadron RAF (1944)

• No. 341 Squadron RAF (1944)

• No. 402 Squadron RCAF (1943 & 1944)

• No. 412 Squadron RCAF (1942)

• No. 416 Squadron RCAF (1943)

• No. 485 Squadron RNZAF (1943)

• 307th Fighter Squadron

Units; • No. 124 Airfield

• No. 145 (French) Airfield became No. 145 (French) (Fighter) Wing RAF

• No. 421 Repair & Salvage Unit

• No. 2701 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2703 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2720 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2723 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2742 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2757 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2761 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2762 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2765 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2766 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2767 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2790 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2795 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2803 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2813 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 2956 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 4001 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment

• No. 4016 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment

• Air Sea Rescue Flight RAF, Merston/Westhampnett (1941)