GeeRam,
Was there ever a plan to move 51 Squadron to Fairford? They have a newly refurbished hangar at Waddington and that is the RAF ISTAR home. Fairford is a thinly staffed USAFE deployment base with expenditure planned to build new accommodation and infrastructure to accomodate the USAF RC's that deploy to Mildenhall. No RAF infra or admin there, and again, the whole point of Scampton closing is to reduce the MoD estate and reduce the estate spend, not add more and spend more.