Something I forgot to mention because I’ve been busy and completely forgot.
I was looking at the Anglia Ceefax a few days ago and the old chestnut about Cambridge City Council wanting to redevelop Cambridge Airport for housing came up.
I’ve heard this all before, however, one of the possible new sites mentioned for the relocation of the airfield and presumably Marshalls, was Mildenhall.
Whether the USAF with their security paranoia, understandably so, would accept a civilian airfield and aircraft repair facility is open to question, or do Cambs Council know something we don’t know.
Can anyone shed any light on this.
I hope that the lovely old terminal building at Cambridge won’t be turned into a McDonalds as compensation.
I have to say with regard to aircraft activity at Marshalls, it’s pretty hairy for the locals. A few years ago my ex-wife was being treated for luekemia at Addenbrookes, the ward was on the top floor. I used to visit and wait in the corridor outside giving me a clear view over the airfield. Once a C-130 took off and it was a bit daunting to see it lower than me.
Incidentally she made a full recovery, the ex as well as the Hercules.
By: 12jaguar - 28th July 2009 at 20:08
Allegedly, Alconbury was one of the first options to be discounted the first time round in favour of Mildenhall. For whatever reason, Alconbury and Mildenhall are not part of the equation now.
By: GrahamSimons - 28th July 2009 at 18:37
I’ve been hearing a lot of talk on and off over the years about Marshall’s moving to Alconbury, and also making use of the A1/A14/railway line to turn it into a major transport hub. We’ve been trying to get an author to do an Airfield Focus on it for some time now, with no luck. Given the length of the runway and the links – makes a lot of sense to me!
By: G-ORDY - 28th July 2009 at 18:29
If it were up to me I’d put two fingers up to Cambridge City Council and move the entire operation to “Robin Hood International” …
By: trumper - 28th July 2009 at 09:29
I would’nt think there would be a rush.Northstowe has been put on the back burner,the recession has stopped most building plans for now.
There is a building development near Arbury and the A14,seems to have come to a standstill as well.
Having saidthat,now is probably a buyers market and not a sellers market so it may not pay Marshalls to sell – – yet.
This seems to have a photo at the top showing in stages what is planned
http://www.landplanninggroup.com/current-projects/northstowe-south-cambridgeshire.html
By: 12jaguar - 28th July 2009 at 08:05
There’s a lot of other redevelopment just starting at Wyton as well around the south side behind the hangars.
The rumour I heard was MA was looking at developing the north side dispersals and old Bloodhound site for it’s use.
that would make sense as the domestic side of the airfield is being gutted to allow the JARIC compound to be built. The old Bloodhound site and dispersals is adjacent to the A141 which would make access easier too.
By: Firebird - 28th July 2009 at 08:02
There’s a lot of other redevelopment just starting at Wyton as well around the south side behind the hangars.
The rumour I heard was MA was looking at developing the north side dispersals and old Bloodhound site for it’s use.
By: 12jaguar - 28th July 2009 at 07:49
Front runners in the proposed move are Wyton and Waterbeach, although AFIK Waterbeach is slated to be a housing development in the future anyway. Any move is unlikely to take place in the near future though. Wyton would be best for me although it would probably mean that the Stirling Project would have to relocate (:cool: then :()
By: worker - 28th July 2009 at 05:37
mildenhall
i dont think you will find that marshalls have bought the building in mildenhall:D
By: DGH - 8th February 2006 at 19:21
In my opinion Moggy has hit the nail on the head. I personally think Marshalls are behind all the talk, rumours and newspaper stories. Where will they move to? Which ever location the property developers find that is most suitable to go with the biggest wedge of cash. :rolleyes:
By: peppermint_jam - 8th February 2006 at 18:57
One of our suppliers uses part of Wyton as a storage base, I was there last week and the manager told me that they were on the move to find other premises as Marshalls were moving in.
There you go, another urban myth? or news from the horses mouth? 😀
I have lived on and around Wyton for the last 11 years or so and have heard this rumour banded around. Something to note would be that the landing lights that were in a farmers field at the 09 end of the main runway were ripped out by force last year. Not the sort of thing I’d expect to see happen if Marshalls were planning to move in. The report I’d heard was that they had sent out a site survay team to assess Wyton, they had found that a great deal of money would need to be spent on the runways and taxiway to get the Airfield up to a useable site, so they removed Wyton from the short list.
Attached is a google earth pic of the airfield, prooving google are a bit behind on their updating, as the approach lights can be seen in said field!
By: Pen Pusher - 8th February 2006 at 18:33
One of our suppliers uses part of Wyton as a storage base, I was there last week and the manager told me that they were on the move to find other premises as Marshalls were moving in.
On the contrary, spending shed loads on upgrading military airfields usually preceeds flogging them off.
I work at Wyton. Lots of money being spent on lots of niff naff things and there are heavy duty security gates at the main entrance now.
Brian
By: bloodnok - 8th February 2006 at 18:21
they just had new runways at mildenhall and i see a lot of evergreen 747’s and ATA 757’s and other amarican airline aircraft even southern air transport also a lot of new ammo bunkers are made at the “back row” (late Farmer John’s place) part of the airfield and some new hangars
i dont think they are going to move the usaf of mildenhall to an other place
i’d be suprised if you saw southern air transport, i though they went bust a few years ago.
By: zoot horn rollo - 8th February 2006 at 16:32
On the contrary, spending shed loads on upgrading military airfields usually preceeds flogging them off…… :rolleyes:
What do you mean usually? Always, I would have thought…
By: Firebird - 8th February 2006 at 16:14
also a lot of new ammo bunkers are made at the “back row” (late Farmer John’s place) part of the airfield and some new hangars
i dont think they are going to move the usaf of mildenhall to an other place
On the contrary, spending shed loads on upgrading military airfields usually preceeds flogging them off…… :rolleyes:
By: roarex - 8th February 2006 at 13:34
they just had new runways at mildenhall and i see a lot of evergreen 747’s and ATA 757’s and other amarican airline aircraft even southern air transport also a lot of new ammo bunkers are made at the “back row” (late Farmer John’s place) part of the airfield and some new hangars
i dont think they are going to move the usaf of mildenhall to an other place
By: bloodnok - 18th January 2006 at 18:55
or if you want more urban myths….. during the big opening ceremony at the DARA hanger at ST.Athans,(the week after its closure was published!) it was noted in the local press that an international aerospace company was interested in taking it on, and they also noted a certain sir Michael Marshall (from the international aerospace firm marshall aerospace), was amongst the VIP’s attending……
By: Denis - 18th January 2006 at 18:14
One of our suppliers uses part of Wyton as a storage base, I was there last week and the manager told me that they were on the move to find other premises as Marshalls were moving in.
There you go, another urban myth? or news from the horses mouth? 😀
By: bloodnok - 18th January 2006 at 17:55
yes, but that could be for the either the vehicle bodies, or the aerospace machine shops, both of which, ibelieve, are due to move, as land from that part of marshalls is released for housing.
By: Moggy C - 18th January 2006 at 17:52
The one element most people have missed, probably because we are all so familiar with it is that Marshalls are very strongly for the move. They want the vast piles of money that will flow from redeveloping the airfield for housing.
Interesting then that a very large factory building on a Mildenhall Trading Estate abutting the airfield, that used to be the property of Lamb Technicon, has just been sold, allegedly to …..?
You guess.
Moggy 😉
By: bloodnok - 18th January 2006 at 17:47
Yes but people can be moved about. Plus the costs of keeping open the civilian side of things can out way the cost of keeping just a few personnel. As for hangar size, yes there are proposals to build a hangar for C17 work but to allow civil onto a USAF airbase would just not be practical to the USAF Yes ATA tristars etc do some movements for them but its not that simple.
ATA aircraft do regular troop runs into mildenhall, so i cant see the difference in a civilian aircraft landing and taxiing to the military side, or to a marshalls hanger. its not as if marshalls have a lot of aircraft movements, in fact they would probably be less that the number of other civilian aircraft visiting.
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