Originally Posted by
arthur j negus esq
NATS has been the ANSP at MOD Aberporth as long as NATS has existed. The contract was not lost to Newquay. Newquay provide ad-hoc radar for West Wales airport in support of the Watchkeeper project and other customer requirements.
https://nats.aero/blog/2014/07/diffe...affic-control/
Ah I wasn't aware that Newquay operated from 'West Wales Airport' whilst Aberporth Range operated about a mile away; I thought NATS had lost the Aberporth Range contract to Newquay.
Certainly we operated Aberporth Range Control from the range head from about 1970 with a controller detached to the airfield and later supplemented by a 'radio operator' (later a FISO) providing leave relief from Farnborough although up to about 1978, Aberporth airfield had its own controller who, with much bitterness, was posted to Benbecula where I met him in 1979.