Originally Posted by
pr00ne
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.
I have no idea, thats why I was asking.........just remember someone here posting a link some time ago, of a specialist defense media article about the cost saving implications being looked at of a joint RAF/USAF Rivet base at Fairford once Mildenhall closed. Have no idea whether it was real, speculation or complete guff and what the current situation was
