In Malaya a new city, likely needing an airport, is being built at a place originally named Prang Besar. No wonder they renamed the place Putrajaya.

See Putrajaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prang_Besar)
See Prang (architecture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prang_%28architecture%29)

Malaya ceased to exist in the sixties when it was joined up with Sarawak and Sabah in North Borneo and became Malaysia. Since Malaysia is a Federation of Malay States you might more accurately say that the new city and its airport are located in the Malaysian Federal Territory of Putrajaya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrajaya).

(BTW. The wikipedia article is well out of date. Putrajaya is already well established as the centre of government :hmm:)

How about the secret squirrel airfield at........

Middle Wallop :}



SHJ

Then there's that Chinese air force base in Yorkshire:

Lee ming.

The Japanese city of Fukue (IATA:FUJ). It has flights to Fukuoka (IATA:FUK)

The name's okay, but Archerfield Airport has an historic cemetery at the front gate that is a little offputting for prospective joy flight customers. :\
The occupants are pioneers from the days before air travel, but it's still a bit :eek: when you first arrive for flying training. :}
http://www.ctc.qld.edu.au/photos/gods_acre_4.jpg

Cambridge airfield has a cemetery on the dead side.

Broadford, Isle of Skye, has a cemetery on finals.

In South Dublin, not far from where I live, there's a working farm & park called Airfield (http://www.airfield.ie/). Sounds a bit "Irish" to call an airfield Airfield, but the name seems to have stuck because it's a farm that once had an airfield on it, on top of the hill, and the main building was named Airfield House as a result. So it's still called Airfield even though there's no longer an airfield at Airfield. :cool:

Isn't there a private airstrip with a tarmac runway to the west of Dublin called Dolly's Mount ?


SHJ

I've seen a balloon or two at Popham...

Broadford, Isle of Skye, has a cemetery on finals.

On the reciprocal runway you arrived there after take off until they installed a barrier.

The name of the airport at Zurich always raises a laugh if you know Dutch... but it's also a word which could easily be worked into a conversation or exclamation after a botched arrival..:}

Gibraltar also has a cemetery (two if you count the Jewish one as a separate entity) just off the side of the runway. But to get back to the title of the OP, how about the fact that half the airfields in the south of UK are called 'London XXX'. And what about O'LearyAir flying to European city airports that are nowhere near the city the unfortunate punters think they are flying to?

Very few non-airline people know where El Altet is and some might well believe that it's in the middle east (the name is actually Arabic)

El Altet is an old name for Alicante Airport. Many placenames in Spain and Portugal came from Arabic.
Alicante Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicante_Airport)

Thank you Anthony. I had assumed in my naivety that everyone reading this thread would know that. My apologies.

Odiham is just around the corner from Up Nately.... Always made me giggle wondering who Nately might have been... :E

wondering who Nately might have been
An soundalike for nightly, perhaps.

Up nightly . . . :E

Is "Much Binding on the Marsh" still operational?

Much Binding in the Marsh :) :D
Kenneth Horne Sam Costa Richard Murdoch 1951 - YouTube

My Irish airfield flight Guide lists a strip known as "Gay Tracy"

There used to be an airfield at 'Little Snoring' I think?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Omark44/OldwardenLtSnoringDuxfordEKirkby012.jpg

Is "Much Binding on the Marsh" still operational?

My father flew the last Harvard flight at No 1 FTS at Moreton-in-the-Marsh on 28th February 1955. It then became a Fire Service training establishment.

Broadford, Isle of Skye, has a cemetery on finals.

If that's not bad enough, I recall a grave being dug during a period we were doing circuits!:eek:

BB

Up nightly . . .

I still am, although nowadays it's to go for a pee. :sad:

If that's not bad enough, I recall a grave being dug during a period we were doing circuits!:eek:
Cheery. :( Probably better than seeing the airport fire service 'holding short' en masse though. :eek:

Wantoat, PNG, pronounced 'One ****'.

If the Station Commander is getting some flying time at a Wiltshire test and development establishment, when an important visitor turns up unexpectedly; does the tower call, 'Boscombe Down'? :}

bnt (http://www.pprune.org/members/167419-bnt) wrote:
> In South Dublin, not far from where I live, there's a working farm & park called
> Airfield (http://www.airfield.ie/). Sounds a bit "Irish" to call an airfield Airfield, ...

Likewise, in county Limerick in Ireland is a town called Hospital, but there is no hospital there as far as I know.

Hospital, County Limerick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital,_County_Limerick)

... and the Yorkshire airfield named after the Hollywood star who emerged from the womb ready for military action - Cher (born in helmet) ,, aaarrrgh :-)

Ah yes, RAF Little Snoring, that would have been mainly Mosquitoes. Perhaps that's the shepherd's base.

Odiham is just around the corner from Up Nately.... Always made me giggle wondering who Nately might have been...

Many RAF stations were traditionally named after the nearest railway station.

Odiham doesn't have a railway station and the nearest one is Hook. They obviously couldn't use that or it would have been RAF Hook.

Not too bad until you say it more quickly. :ooh:

> .. and the Yorkshire airfield named after the Hollywood star who emerged from
> the womb ready for military action - Cher (born in helmet) ,, aaarrrgh :-)

Sherburn-in-Elmet Airfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherburn-in-Elmet_Airfield)

In Irian Jaya (West New Guinea) there is an airfield called Fak Fak and yes, it is pronounced as if the "a" is a "u".

New Zillanders have Whakatane, pronounced "F**k-a-tarny", but I have never seen any Tarnies near there. Probably a good reason for them to stay away.:eek:

I used to drive through Sherburn many years ago, a short cut off the A1, on my way to RAF Linton.

It always made me smile to see the black and white painted, cast iron village name sign...some wag had drawn a crooked "T" before the "in-Elmet".

"Sherburn-Tin-Elmet" :cool:

Once-upon-a-time the holiday island of Phuket was a SEATO bombing range; except that the Ph was pronounced as F instead of P.

What about the code for Bangkok then? It used to be PHUK (Phu Ket). I don't know if that has changed.

.....and, of course, here in Norfolk, we have Northrepps International

I think Nately was in "Twelve O'Clock High".

What about the code for Bangkok then? It used to be PHUK (Phu Ket). I don't know if that has changed.

Not any more! If ICAO, PXXX would probably put it somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, and if IATA, well I don't know enough about them except they are usually 3 letter codes.

Bangkok was unfortunately VTBD (TB surrounded by VD) but is now VTBS.

Phuket has its own rather busy airport and has had for some time now. ICAO is VTSP, IATA is HKT. PHUK sounds like a bar tale of some sort, so you might want to check your sources.

HMS Bastard memorial is a personal favourite

The Airport Guide :: Airport Information for H.M.S.BASTARD MEMORIAL (http://www.the-airport-guide.com/airport.php?airports_id=13098)

If your significant other likes it up the wrong un' then you could fall foul to this.....

Shanghai (PVG) otherwise known as' Pudong'

:E

"Prang" in Malayan or Indonesian language place names may represent:-
"perang" = "war" or "brown"
"parang" = "machete", "cutlass"
"pirang" = "auburn"
This link
Putrajaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prang_Besar#History_and_design)
mentions two placenames containing this word.

The original Belfast airport was appropriately named Nut's Corner.

Kloten (Zurich) means something rude in Dutch KLM has gone "naar de kloten" from some of Juud's posts :=