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Old 7th May 2020, 16:33
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grizzled
 
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While we wait for someone to take up the Open House...

Re MGJ's comments, I can confirm that when we did an assessment of Timor-Leste airports / airfields in 2005, WPEC (Baucau) runway surface was in remarkably good condition, expecially considering it had received no ongoing manintenance in years.
Here's a pic taken on final at Baucau in 2005, where the site of the crash of an IL-76 two years earlier can still be clearly seen.
Baucau trivia: It's the site of the only known hijacking of an Australian military aircraft (Sept. 1975).


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