Harpooner
1.0bn to run an "RAF Station for a year", surely you jest!! If that were true I am not sure there would be much money left in the defence budget for anything else!! I am sure in these days of cut backs we probably don't have 30 stations left (he said taking off his shoes and socks to aid counting!). Still, there are:
Aldergrove, Benson, Brize Norton, Coltishall, Coningsby, Cottesmore, Cranwell..... Oh this is hurting my brain,I give up, I am sure some nurd out there can add them all up (WEBF maybe), but hopefully you get the point!!!