Pr00ne, the reference to RAF Machrihanish refers to 1992- before the RAF base was closed. I flew there a lot during the 1980s, and I saw aircraft there I'd never even heard of before... it also had just enough hangar space to allow visiting aircraft to spend the day there out of sight. Add the base's ease of air access, but remoteness by surface transport (140 miles of A-road from the nearest city, still almost all single-carriageway), small local population, the ease with which it is still possible to monitor who comes onto Kintyre.... quite a useful place after all!