'The most recent purpose-built airfield in the RAF, Mount Pleasant was opened in 1984 to establish a fighter and transport presence in the Islands following the Falklands War. Currently based at Mount Pleasant are No 1435 Flight with 4 Tornado F3s, No 1312 Flight, with a single VC10 tanker and 1 Hercules C1, as well as No 78 Squadron with Chinook and Sea King helicopters. Ground units include No 7, 303 and 751 Signals Units and a Rapier detachment from the RAF Regiment.'
Nice to see that the RAF Website is innacurate in so many ways - or perhaps it's just part of a deception campaign (unfortunatley foiled as the formation of 78 Sqn as a Merlin HC Mk3/3a sqn is also on the website and the RAF Regt's loss of Rapier was well publicised).