It will be a shame if all aircraft maintenance at St. Athan were to come to an end.
I spent a very hard working but happy couple of years there as a contractor, doing majors and upgrade modifications (Jag 97, NVG, Adour 106) on the Jaguar during the DARA years. The overall skill and dedication of the JMF workforce was really something quite remarkable. Many of these guys were ex-RAF with years of Jaguar squadron experience. Others were local lads who had been 'converted' to aircraft from other engineering disciplines. A lot of these were damn good as well.
A few months after I finished there, I was again contracting for DARA. This time at Fleetlands near Gosport on Lynx helicopters. It couldn't have been more different! A bit of a shambles really, in comparison to St. Athan!