Current Role
RAF St Mawgan is currently home to Defence Survival Training Organisation (DSTO), which is a tri-service unit that teaches 'Survive, Evade, Resist, Extraction' (SERE) methods for the Armed Forces in support of operations and training. They also conduct trials and equipment development. The Royal Air Force maintains a small workshop on the station, enabling construction of components for the upgrading of aircraft across all three services. Accommodation on the base is often used by students of Agusta Westland's training facility at Newquay Airport.
Other lodger units based at St Mawgan are Plymouth & Cornwall Wing of the Air Training Corps. The gate guard which is an Avro Shackleton aircraft will remain at RAF St Mawgan as long as there is a military presence.
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