It follows the decision to cancel the new Nimrod aircraft which will effectively close RAF Kinloss.
Nearby RAF Kinloss will effectively close after ministers cancelled orders for the new Nimrod MRA4 surveillance aircraft.
Reopening the runway at RAF Kinloss for flying operations is being considered, the Ministry of Defence has said.
Airlines and Royal Mail aircraft unable to use Inverness Airport due to fog have been diverted to Kinloss.
It was announced that RAF Kinloss would shut after ministers cancelled orders for the new Nimrod MRA4 surveillance aircraft.
The minister confirmed the new Nimrod Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft would be based at RAF Kinloss until at least 2013.
The UK government announced on Tuesday it had cancelled the Nimrod replacement, effectively meaning the closure of RAF Kinloss.
In May, a coroner ruled the Nimrod fleet, based at RAF Kinloss, had never been airworthy and should be grounded.
However Kinloss remains available to handle an emergency for RAF Lossiemouth jets.
The crew were flying their twin-engined aircraft on a night-time cross country navigation exercise out of RAF Kinloss in Moray on 13 April.
The defence review last year signalled the end of RAF Kinloss and left the future of RAF Lossiemouth, both in Moray, in the balance.
It was announced earlier this year that RAF Kinloss in Moray would shut after ministers cancelled orders for the new Nimrod MRA4 surveillance aircraft.
He served as team leader of RAF Leuchars and Kinloss mountain rescue teams (MRTs) and worked for four years in the Kinloss air rescue co-ordination centre.
Iain Anderson, the commission's supervisor in Scotland, was guided to the crash site last year by David "Heavy" Whalley, a former RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue team leader.
The move was partially to make up for the closure of the RAF bases at Leuchars in Fife and Kinloss in Moray, which were both to become Army bases instead.
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Members of 201 Squadron, Guernsey's Own, from Royal Air Force Kinloss will be led by the squadron's commanding officer, Wing Commander Mike Blackburn who took up the post in December.
British military spokesman James Lyne, from the RAF base at Kinloss, said the helicopter had landed upright and floated due to flotation bags which inflated when it landed on water.
An RAF Kinloss helicopter searched the area from Eden Bridge to Solway Estuary on Sunday and coastguard teams searched both sides of the river from the Eden Bridges to Grinsdale.
Amid speculation that the UK's 123 Tornado jets would be phased out, it has now been confirmed that a reduced fleet will be retained, but three air bases, including RAF Kinloss, will close.
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