In 1983, BAe was given a contract to modify 88 Hawk T1s to T1A standard; these would carry two Sidewinders and a centreline cannon pod. Given the Hawk's lower speed (subsonic in level flight) they could not cover large areas; according to the RAF's website they were intended "to operate in the secondary air defence role as part of a mixed fighter force within the UK Air Defence Region."
I read this to mean they would have been dispersed, probably in small numbers, around many sites- probably including some using motorways as runways. At a lecture I was told 1000m straights would be long enough... coincidentally, many motorway service stations are near or on such straight sections. RAF Newport Pagnell perhaps? It is unlikely that the Red Arrows would be kept together: as all the display pilots are Flying Instructors they would be more useful spread through the dispersed units to give whatever training was possible.
There was also a suggestion that pilots from the Empire Test Pilot School would be used as an elite squadron; however, the RAF's history of elite squadrons is unhappy. The Dambusters concentrated many of Bomber Command's most experienced crews, then lost over a third of them in a single night- to make it worse, later that summer most of the survivors were killed attacking a variety of difficult targets, notably the Dortmund-Ems canal. Better results were generally obtained by taking a squadron off operations and training it for an individual mission.
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