The rumour is that the only reason for sending Sea King servicing to DARA was to give it a full order book and make it attractive to buyers. Now, when we can't get serviceable aircraft out to the front line and the ones that do make it out are heaps of sh*te and need extensive shakedowns by the front line engineers, it doesn't look quite such a clever idea does it?
No doubt some peoples pockets were well lined during the process.