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Old 2nd Nov 2017, 09:50
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Martin the Martian
 
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But it already is in the public domain. Not just local press, but spotters' groups, stations' own websites, Wikipedia, aviation press, etc. You can follow a lot of military aircraft on many of the commercial flight tracking sites as well as see which areas of military airfields house which squadrons on Google Earth. There are publications out there that will give you the location and parent unit of every UK military aircraft by serial number, when they moved from one unit to another, when they reissued following servicing, and so on. Much of it is a matter of public record in any case, and groups such as Air-Britain have never been known to feel the rhetorical hand of security on their shoulder. I suspect the info in RafEngO's post took a few minutes of surfing to compile.

And just to correct RafEngO, Newquay was originally branded as Newquay Cornwall Airport before its bizarre name change to Cornwall Airport Newquay. It never used 'International' as part of its name.
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