RAF Valley: Training

(asked on 19th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many additional training flights are planned to be undertaken from RAF Valley, Ynys Mon as a result of the closure of (a) RAF Linton-on-Ouse, (b) RAF Scampton and (c) other RAF bases in each of the next three years.


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Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 26th March 2019

The RAF decision to conduct all Basic Fast Jet training at RAF Valley and to cease use of RAF Linton-on-Ouse, as part of wider Defence Estate rationalisation, will result in around 35 additional training sorties a day on the new Texan aircraft at RAF Valley.

None of the closures of the remaining RAF bases due to take place in the next three years will result in additional training flights at RAF Valley.

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