Originally Posted by
Harley Quinn
Does Cottesmore or Wiittering have the necessary support services now? ATC, Fire & Rescue, Fuel storage, hangars suitable to house and maintain aircraft, are the operating surfaces up to snuff? Have any new housing estates been built since flying ceased, will it be affected by constant practice sorties. If the answer is we're not sure, then everyone on RAFAT should start practicing understanding that strange Yorkshire accent, because Leeming probably has all that good, practical, expensive stuff already.
Cottesmore does not as it’s been near a decade since end of Harrier ops, handed over to the army. Not even sure if the runway is in good shape. Wittering has the necessary infrastructure ATC, Fire, etc as it does operate 16 and 6 Sqn plus Cambridge and London UAS
https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisat...raf-wittering/
On a numerous note, why not start up flight ops lol at Wyton 🎃🤖 ....sure the only thing flying is the MAGPAS MD902 but they’re moving to Alconbury come next year. And hey it was only quarter of a century ago, that 100 Sqn was based there with their Hawk T1s... lol
Cheers