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No word at all on maintenance, but it looks to be thinking in obscure 'other directions...' the plan moved the Suffolk aircraft from its current base a few miles up the road.... so if said plan had any ideas in retaining that Eastern Counties menders facility it is apparently not on....
Devon & Cornwall appear nailed down to looking after the Devon AA 135 for a few years but not necessarily their own 145!
The SS plan that envisages expansion at Lippitts would come a cropper with the neighbours..... they definitely do not like operations there. They got rid of the dogs [they barked], the guns [they went pop] and that interference saw most of the place shut down except the helicopters. As you may know the ASU thought of retreating to Northolt but that did not work out.
Plenty of space there and 145 engineers but I think those neighbours would even stop even an temporary Olympic event step up in capability.
With a bit of luck
if the neighbours get the ASU out (and they are about the last occupants of this once thriving site) they will pay the price and find it is occupied by temporary caravan club members that Surrey ASU got on so well with .....
