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Not quite Cardiff but close. A new MRO hangar is to be built at St Athan. Initially it looks like a temporary one capable of housing up to a 738 will be built and then a more permanent one.
https://ukaviation.news/new-mro-hang...t-at-st-athan/
https://ukaviation.news/new-mro-hang...t-at-st-athan/
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Not quite Cardiff but close. A new MRO hangar is to be built at St Athan. Initially it looks like a temporary one capable of housing up to a 738 will be built and then a more permanent one.
https://ukaviation.news/new-mro-hang...t-at-st-athan/
https://ukaviation.news/new-mro-hang...t-at-st-athan/
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The aircraft hangar will occupy 45,000 square metres and will consist of a 48 bay fast-jet, deep maintenance hangar with full support facilities. The design will be able to accommodate a wide range of military and civil aircraft including C130, A320 and B737 aircraft. The design is also flexible enough to allow for future changes in service requirements.
I had left the RAF by the time this was built, some former colleagues informed me that what was built was only suitable for fast jet maintenance giving the reasons I had previously posted, Even though RAF St Athan lost the contract to maintain these aircraft. A number of MRO companies over the years have been and gone through the St Athan site, none of them have considered using this hangar?
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Taff, the strategy for the site was made in Wales, control of the building remained with the English. I think you will find that the problem was political rather than technical.
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I would say Caerdav and Ecube are the ones needing the runway and who knows who else in the future.
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Cardiff is due a PPE flight at 13.00 today from Cambodia.
https://twitter.com/cardiffonline/st...567397888?s=19
https://twitter.com/cardiffonline/st...567397888?s=19
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According to the article it's correct. Further flights will come from China.
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https://ukaviation.news/first-specia...rdiff-airport/
According to the article it's correct. Further flights will come from China.
According to the article it's correct. Further flights will come from China.
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200,000 items of PPE and 11 tonnes of medical freight altogether from Cambodia.
https://www.cardiff-airport.com/news...for-welsh-nhs/