RAF Wittering re-activated four years after being decommissioned

Four years after RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire was officially decommissioned, aircrafts have returned to the base.

The former home of the Harrier Jump Jet is preparing to be re-activated, as a training centre for five University Air Squadrons.

Wittering has only seen helicopter flights since the decommissioning of the Harrier Jump Jets in December 2010. The new planes might be less impressive but they mark its return to an active airbase.

Students and instructors from the University Air Squadron will be flying from here initially. It's estimated the number of people working at Wittering will increase by around 100. Their activities ensuring this base is once more busy with planes landing and taking off.

Staff and service personnel here say while Wittering's future has always been relatively secure an airbase without planes just was not the same. Bringing them back they say has created a huge buzz.