Originally Posted by
Momoe
Mildenhall is a good shout, already running down for a scheduled 2023 relocation to Fairford. 110V electrical infrastructure but other than it ticks a lot of boxes.
Costs of running Mildenhall and upgrade/maintenance will make running Cambridge airport seem like a tea party. Not a chance, never in a million Sundays could be justified for a £250 - £300m turnover aerospace business of which the bit that needs actual hangars and a runway are a fraction of that. Yes, you might make some money renting out spare buildings you don't need to third parties and building houses in spare corners, but that is far away from a city like Cambridge where people actually want to be, so the scope for that is handicapped. Wyton less so, but still mind-blowing costs to run a place like that.