So it is no surprise that most of its future investment will be in commercial-transport development, and that a string of top defense executives have been shifted to the commercial side of the house.
It is hoped the busway will ease congestion on the A14 and provide an alternative mode of transport for people living at a proposed new housing developmentin the area.
In 2001, funding from the Department for Transport was granted for the development of the concrete-tracked busway along a disused railway track between St Ives and Cambridge.
"The aerospace business park will go a long way to helping us achieve the goal set out in our economic development strategy, " said Economic Development and Transport Minister Andrew Davies.
Leading his party's debate in the chamber, Mr Davies called on the development of a transport infrastructure and specifically the improvement of the road between Cardiff and the airport to attract more air passengers.
Then more estimates day debates - first on transport and the economy and then on the Rio Plus Summit on sustainable development - to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June.
And the business of the airfield's new owner, CargoLifter, is the development of giant airships, a means of transport few have taken seriously since the Hindenburg went up in flames in 1937.