Hethel
| Also known as: | Hethel Aerodrome / Hethel Engineering Centre / RAF Hethel / RAF Station, Hethel / USAAF Station 114 |
| County: | Norfolk |
| Current Status: | Farmland (main position) / Industry (main position) / Museum |
| Date: | 1942 - 15 June 1948; subsequent minor use |
| Current Use: | Disused |
| Used By: | RAF / RAF (Polish) (main user) / Civil (minor use) / USAAF (main user) |
| Landing Surface Types: | Paved |
| Prominent People: | Colin Chapman |
| Aircraft Roles: | Bomber (main role) / Fighter (main role) / General aviation (minor use) |
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):
- 2L Technologies Ltd
- 389th Memorial Exhibition Museum
- Active Technologies
- Add Energy Ltd
- All Saints Church, Carleton Rode
- All Saints Church, Hethel
- Andrew Hunt Economics
- Ansible Motion
- Azure Labs Ltd
- Bracon Ash & Hethel Parish Council
- Business Enhancement Solutions
- Caterham Technology & Innovation
- EEF
- Elitech Power Ltd
- Future Transport Systems
- Genite Corporation
- Green Oil Technology Ltd
- Group Lotus plc
- Hethel Engineering Centre
- Inductive Logic
- JDGray Associates
- Lotus Sport
- Magnus Marine Ltd
- Maytek Solutions
- NexxtDrive
- NT CADCAM Limited
- OPITO
- PhaD Ltd
- Planscriber Ltd
- Proeon Systems
- Project Facilitators & Services Company Ltd
- Scion-Sprays Ltd
- Sonar Link
- Syrinix
- Wymondham Library
- Wymondham Town Council
Main unit(s) present:
- 14th BW (Heavy)
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No 19 Personnel Transit Centre
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No 65 Sqn
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No 126 Sqn
- No 131 (Polish) (Fighter) Wing
- No 302 Sqn
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No 303 Sqn
- No 308 Sqn
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No 316 Sqn
- No 317 Sqn
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320th BG
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389th BG
- 444th BS
- 564th BS
- 565th BS
- 566th BS
- 567th BS
- No 1012 Servicing Wing
- No 4246 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment
- Station Flight, Hethel
A Lotus F1 car at Hethel, c. June 1977.
Looking east from the runway 12 threshold, 12 October 2008. © Richard Flagg
The control tower at Hethel, 12 October 2008. © Richard Flagg
Gymnasium and Chancel at Hethel, 27 September 2008. © Richard Flagg
Aerial view of Hethel, 21 March 2009. © Richard Flagg
Looking south-east across Hethel airfield, 13 June 2009. Photograph copyright © 2016 Nick Challoner, all rights reserved, www.challoner.com
Looking south-west across Hethel airfield, down the old main runway with a T2 hangar bottom right, 13 June 2009. Photograph copyright © 2016 Nick Challoner, all rights reserved, www.challoner.com
Aerial view of Hethel, 24 June 2011. © Richard Flagg
Aerial view of Hethel, 24 June 2011. © Richard Flagg
Aerial view of the Communal Site, 24 June 2011. © Richard Flagg
Looking south west from the runway 24 threshold, 17 September 2011. © Richard Flagg
Wireless Transmitter Building at Hethel, 30 January 2013. © Richard Flagg
Norden Bombsight Workshop and Store at Hethel, 8 September 2013. © Richard Flagg
Gymnasium and Chancel at Hethel, 30 April 2016. © Richard Flagg
Aerial view of Hethel, 4 May 2016. © Richard Flagg