Which Aerodrome Mk III

[jensdad]

It looks like a relatively small town at Right, but some of the housing looks quite monumental in scale. For that reason, I'm going to start the narrowing-down process by going for Eastern Bloc.

[nvubu]

Right continent, wrong side of it though.

[Heathrow Harry]

Tengah in S'pore?

[nvubu]

I assumed by Eastern Bloc JD meant Europe :)

[chevvron]

This it's more like France or Portugal?

[nvubu]

It is in France

[nvubu]

Here's an image from 100 years ago - when it wasn't in France
https://mudiqg.bn1302.livefilestore.com/y4mQGydWr7OyZEo--RJmq1ZhTc8Z13z1BUuJ3nJW2MN-vNub5aiP4nLeIaJCxdHeqhr9VMI_oQAeQKkpX65dABxjxrSH5nVI8jgJYstY T4Th_H_xJJIoSCBY41fBisRVZ7DA082ATKy27E_YPES3D2KNslSENGKX3RGk kS9k4AfRobPxTk8XrqWUMdXUeof6nA4dWQ3Ti686Gl4Bt-d1Q-M0w?width=1024&height=793&cropmode=none

[kcockayne]

Does that put it in the Saarland ?

[Allan Lupton]

I'd bid Alsace, (which was Germany when my great grandparents lived there!) and Strassbourg-Entzheim as a possible answer.

[nvubu]

You are close with Strassbourg-Entzheim.


The tree line at the top of the old image and the road layout are still recognisable.

[Heathrow Harry]

Kaltenhouse/Haguenau???

[nvubu]

Hagueau it is. Over to you HH.

[Heathrow Harry]

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture707-2017-07-18-161159.jpg

Google earth brought up those artifical lakes really well!!

Try this

[dixi188]

Somewhere bloody cold.
How about Orebro in Sweden.

[sycamore]

Interesting shadow across the runway....?

[jensdad]

Looks a bit too hilly to be Orebro but I stand to be corrected. I'm going for Kiruna.

[Heathrow Harry]

Kiruna it is - Jensdad's turn

And here is the cause of the well spotted shadow Sycamore

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture708-2017-07-18-161134.jpg

[sycamore]

Thanks HH,thought it might be a very tall flagpole,,or a banner tow...

[jensdad]

I definitely need to stick the lottery on. Just went for Kiruna as it was one of the few airports I know of in the hilly bit of Sweden.
Open House!

[Mark 1]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RnlkfqWpPr8v9FbaLw7XQsO13pRoGknAkdfIaf73WYh_1KVhbpfXaWE3XEVv X8pxvXvL2bYGmDvY7EDVTkrKHjeFV0R7fbfZq5XTSvwB3m3kr2OA4L3bbgeK t2DzROfZMnd04a6opxSfKI7I6qjWOWh5j9fBxv1scokzPpHWhPvqQg3Sy3jt _EQp84r9JHLuYQekxJchysr5DqoY7dUb-OOgt267m6cAFOt5HKETBYRDefubirGfjKPUzJcAe25gzf3Cj1aq5u8_5N609 5rLJUIBCfEqBRL65v6hfJYtLMN8tO8Hacje653FIb4mjDrd3q7TQPaUHYlJJ tdCE5GmQR8FfRgbyo53CrBbp4tpg4FavlFJkuEclwgH_2fhqMkTRDnKr-Q-uk04R-C9UFjryIkA0eheWDerJLLohN_G8rntrmbjMjOiSKgUh_WuxwKcl32tDDWIms 3PkVbvPhFzZhwHFaEc7CohYYg_XH-OgQQrmOgxdZWfzCLHG_JKx9XdpWRiv75maKP0Lie6WqMpxiapTEbGBtgEXM3 zJUpUZ17n2GbwNNp6LTg77P5VQv7DN99_itGeZTkB8BHqLCvwloK5cj9klga T0Q3s-fcj_DNa59z24iApv0Any2YMRIGyEf2J9t5qjdFYUDq-ORkA3Hhm2HlL6410STbPznXBAs6jAH4=w640-no

A recent picture of a long abandoned airbase.
I don't think this has appeared before.

[Heathrow Harry]

no - but it rings a bell................

[nvubu]

Greenland ?

[Mark 1]

Greenland it is!

[mustbeaboeing]

Apatok Island ?
Open House if correct

[Mark 1]

Not Akpatok Island. That's in Ungava Bay, Canada

[Terry Dactil]

WW2 military?
One with a Bluie East or Bluie West number?

[Mark 1]

WW2 military?
One with a Bluie East or Bluie West number?

Yes. It's a Bluie!

[Terry Dactil]

That helps.
I'll go for Bluie East 2 then.

[Mark 1]

Correct!

Ikateq airfield. Still remarkably good condition.
Apparently the government have agreed to fund a clean up of all the detritus from when it was abandoned in the '40s. Mostly empty fuel drums but also lots of trucks and machinery.

Over to you.

[Terry Dactil]

Thanks.
It must have been a real fun place to be posted to during the war.
I think I would have preferred a Pacific island instead.

Nothing handy here, so open house.

More photos at:
Bluie East 2 | Capture History (http://www.andreruiter.nl/gallery/bluie-east-2/be2-5/)
http://www.andreruiter.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/image-1-6.jpg

[mgahan]

A recent photograph with historic implications.

[Heathrow Harry]

S Pacific?

Tarawa? Didn't the USAF repatriate some boides from WW2 in the last few years???

[mgahan]

Harry,

The pedant in me says that one out of two is not good enough - but that one is the airport name so on the basis of the old controllers bond well done! Bonriki it is.

Check out the latitude and you'll need to reconsider the "South Pacific"

The USMC are certainly recovering remains from the Battle of Tarawa and repatriating them home with appropriate ceremony on the apron. On Tuesday last that was complete with a three star. The second C17 airlift of this type we've seen this year and the recovery team are still on site.

Great to see the first operational use of the new lights was for the departure of that aircraft and its significant cargo.

MJG

[Heathrow Harry]

Excellent challenge TBH

Only got it so fast as I've been there - that's what triggered the idea - and I'd seen several bits about repatriating bodies over the last few years.......

Not quite as remote as Tuvalu but still.............. nice people at both

Open House

[Heathrow Harry]

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture714-2017-08-04-083943.jpg

[chevvron]

Roma Ciampino?

[Heathrow Harry]

Correct Continent - wrong country

[Heathrow Harry]

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture713-2017-08-04-084213.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture712-2017-08-04-084250.jpg

[sycamore]

Looks joint mil/civil..? France ...?

[Heathrow Harry]

yes (sort of) and Non!

[India Four Two]

That architecture looks Eastern European to me.

[Heathrow Harry]

A lot pleasnter than Prestwick and not in E Europe

[sidtheesexist]

Don't believe it's on Corsica......

[Heathrow Harry]

No - not Corsica

[Heathrow Harry]

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture718-2017-08-14-082404.jpg

[eckhard]

Somewhere in Spain?

[Heathrow Harry]

Ola!!! indeed!!!1

[B737C525]

Getafe...

Are we still posting only those which don't appear in the lists, or is it now less restricted than that?

[Heathrow Harry]

Getafe it is - over to you... not sure which lists you mean tho'?

I guess it may have been up before but with 350 pages to go through..................

[chevvron]

Getafe...

Are we still posting only those which don't appear in the lists, or is it now less restricted than that?

On my one and only visit to the Camp Nou, I saw Barca beat Getafe 5-0.

[B737C525]

I'll say Open House as I find myself unexpectedly occupied for the day. I'll come back later with something if no-one has posted a new challenge.

[Heathrow Harry]

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture725-2017-08-19-174339.jpg

[oftenflylo]

Short lamp posts - Laval?

[Heathrow Harry]

Right continent wrong country

The picture is severly cropped on the left side - otherwise it would be no contest

I think the lamp pots are short due to runway orientation

[dixi188]

Looks like a Hillman Minx or similar, so UK. Perhaps Blackbushe?

[Heathrow Harry]

Uk yes - but not 'Bushe - the buildngs are at the other end of the runway - (now the car auction place) - or they were on Thursday when I drove by .... nice cafe near the tower run by some Polish ladies there these days..............................

[WIDN62]

Earls Colne?

[jensdad]

That's not my local, Newcastle, is it?

[jensdad]

Sorry HH, just read your comment about the car auction place and the café. Doesn't sound like Newcastle!

[B737C525]

On the contrary, I think Harry was saying that the buildings at Blackbushe are at the eastern end, whilst at Newcastle they are to the west. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you're right.

[Heathrow Harry]

Jensdad is correct - thought he would get it!!!

There's a b***** great hangar with "Newcastle Airport" on it cropped off the left hand side - the road is the main Scotland - Newcastle road - now a dual carriagway

B737 is also correct - I was talking about the 'Bushe - which also has a main road alongside but the facilities are the other way round cp Woolsington................

[jensdad]

Nice to see Woolsington Aerodrome getting an outing on these esteemed pages! The old terminal (the building on the right) spent a lot of time as the Newcastle upon Tyne Aero Club and is still standing, as is the hangar next door. Both are now part of the technical area on the south side of the runway, opposite the 'New' - well...1966 - terminal.
I have nothing handy so will have to declare Open Hoose.

[jensdad]

Correction: Just noticed, the old terminal / aero club isn't there any more. Very sad, a nice old art deco style building it was :( The old aero club hangar is still there though.

[Russell Gulch]

Well since OH has been declared by jensdad, I offer these. Stunning arcitecture + artwork in a small terminal building.

I feel I must offer an initial clue as starter: It's in the USA. The ceiling fans out of shot are all old props. Shouldnt take too long!

Russ

[creweite]

Larsen Aviation is visible on one of the photos, so Dalhart in Texas?

[Russell Gulch]

Isaid it wouldn't last long!

Quite an interesting history: A public-owned airport but a private individual paid a lot of money for an exquisite building to act as the FBO.

You have control

[creweite]

Sorry about the poor quality of this photo. The road on the left is actually on top of a berm. The location of an E-W runway can be seen, which was removed as it was short and close to the berm, as I found out when I landed there thirty some years ago!

[jensdad]

The surrounding landscape looks like it should be in the Netherlands or Belgium, or maybe Northwest Germany. But I haven't got the foggiest idea which aerodrome it is!

[Heathrow Harry]

yes - but it might be somewhere like Florida or the Gulf Coast ... probably First World as no-one else has the sort of money to build that sort of sea defences. Also near a large stretch of open water

No reefs visible, no palm trees............... E Europe unlikely to have what looks like a small, neat & tidy GA airfield

no big beach or big coastal development so maybe not the Med............

[Harry Wayfarers]

The fields seem very lush and green as if well watered by the climate whilst the coast road seems very straight as if militarised ... Perhaps up the Baltic coast of Europe someplace1

[Heathrow Harry]

Fields look like Netherlands Denmark or Germany but I'm damned if I can see a suitable airfield on GE

[Harry Wayfarers]

If the OP landed there 30 years ago that would have still been in the USSR era so I guess can rule out any of the USSR countries

[creweite]

There was a hurricane her in 1927 that caused a lot of deaths due to flooding, so the berm was constructed in the 30's. That should help locate the field. And no, not WW1

[Kewbick]

Palm Beach County Glades Airport, a.k.a. Pahokee Airport, KPHK, Florida.

[washoutt]

Interesting.When looking at the Pahokee area on GE, it seems as if the whole southeast part is a large polder, complete with surrounding discharge canals.

[Heathrow Harry]

"but it might be somewhere like Florida or the Gulf Coast"

so close, so close!!!

[creweite]

Kewbick has it!

[creweite]

Interesting.When looking at the Pahokee area on GE, it seems as if the whole southeast part is a large polder, complete with surrounding discharge canals.
Not a polder yet, but with rising sea levels it may soon be! My home base of North Perry is 8 feet above MSL and my home is 7 feet above MSL Pahokee is higher at 16 feet. But this used to be the Everglades until the Army Core of Engineers drained the swamp!

[Kewbick]

That was enjoyable. Here is the next challenge:
http://i.imgur.com/yOus5oT.jpg

[jensdad]

The Canadian Joint Air Training Centre (see the sign on the tower) was at CFB Rivers, Manitoba... An interesting article on the web asserts that the large hangar in the background is haunted!! Spooky stuff.


OH if correct.

[Heathrow Harry]

Soemwhere cold and flat - I don't think Norfolk tho'

Tower seems to have the word Training Centre on it ......

Wild guess - Churchill in Canada???

[Kewbick]

jensdad is correct. He read the clue. OPEN HOUSE as requested.

[nvubu]

Just returned from my summer hols. During which I came across this aerodrome.
https://hkzavw.bn1302.livefilestore.com/y4mld1rHAoLgSFK1E5BZExPz5-ooEU9xK7vo7qGRhpRjrDbToRw84yQADviBdOyTEpotIncdKC2uXPFs4rbFnA CUDtxW2PQ9f4J28VkOyIuN6dI7WZ2p8R1qhtdcUEYNkL3pQq8FKPa85ZjMb-as8pOqiSpVdBThTKnqbRAy5x8MQU8q3DH7HrpD3MVadkwlHqQ5nk1TOnH8Xc JQfZj5-kfBA?width=1024&height=576&cropmode=none

[Heathrow Harry]

Austria? there's a field just NE of Imst that looks like that...............

[nvubu]

Not Austria - right region though

[Mark 1]

Challes-les_Eaux?

[nvubu]

Not in France either. Runway is grass.

[kenparry]

Bex, Switzerland?

[nvubu]

it's not in Switzerland either.

Not many more countries left to choose from :ok:

[Heathrow Harry]

It has a german feel to it but I can't see a strip that fits

[nvubu]

Not Germany either :)

[nvubu]

It is definitely somewhere in Europe.

[jensdad]

If it is indeed Karst geology in that area , would that point to Italy or Slovenia? (If only because they are the only two large Alpine countries that haven't been mentioned!)

[nvubu]

jensdad is correct, it is in one of the two countries mentioned.

[Heathrow Harry]

Could be Bovec in Slovenia.................

[nvubu]

And we have a winner. It is Bovec in Slovenia. Taken from outside the Fire station. A most unexpected find, drove round the corner and I just knew it was going to make an appearance on this thread when I returned home.

Over to you HH.

[Heathrow Harry]

Ver nice looking spot Nvubu - and thanks to the question I now relaise a lot of people fly int osme VERY narrow valleys in C Europe!!

Try this.......... which is NOTin a narrow valley....................


http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture738-2017-08-29-160610.jpg

[Cows getting bigger]

That'll be Innishmaan.

[Heathrow Harry]

30 minutes!!! Jeez - I need to try harder........ The Bovine Maestro has the con........

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture737-2017-08-29-160652.jpg

[Cows getting bigger]

My next (don't think I've done this one before)

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4242/35671444692_8fd8fac389_c.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

Hmm - TWO runways!!!

Smog............ flat,

Is that the coast in the distance?

If it wasn't for the large roundabout/traffic circle to the right I'd be thinking S California

[SMOKEON]

Queen Alia International Airport,Amman?

[Cows getting bigger]

Smokeon has it, Queen Alia.

[SMOKEON]

Thank you.
Open House.

[India Four Two]

Here's an airport I flew into once, in a private 727!

[Heathrow Harry]

Canada.................... big country Canada...................

[Kewbick]

Churchill, Manitoba (CYYQ).

[Heathrow Harry]

What a ghastly looking spot!!!

[India Four Two]

Kewbick has it. It was the first leg of my first trip to Russia in a chartered mining company 727, which was so old, it still had hat-racks!

The route was Calgary - Churchill - Iqaluit - Keflavik - Murmansk - Usinsk - Uhkta.

Harry, it’s not so bad - the Polar Bears like it! However I must confess I feel sorry for Wales and Dymond who were sent here to observe the Transit of Venus, while Cook was sent to Tahiti!

Kewbick has the con.

[Kewbick]

Things are looking bleak for the town of Churchill, as the single rail line connecting Churchill to the south is broken and the company that owns the railroad won't repair it. No grain or containers can be shipped from the port of Churchill for export. There is no highway that connects to Thompson and points south. Most everything comes and goes through the airport. The town, (more of a village, as the population is only around 900), must rely on tourism.


Here is the next challenge:
https://i.imgur.com/M4FRHrF.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

Big airport for a small town - unless the main town is out of site - no trees = Tundra - not S Argentina or Chile - a bit neat for the FSU - Canada or Alaska? Or N Scandanavia.............

[Harry Wayfarers]

Looks like military or ex military, ARP on the runway end and what seems to be parking bays on the taxiway.

[wiggy]

? No idea but are those Ski runs on the low ridge in the background?

[Heathrow Harry]

Looks like it's used as a staging hub maybe - is that a big hotel (dark blue building) just this side of the apron? Strange for security if it is................................

Could be High Plains in the US/Canada in autumn when everything is brown ..................

[Heathrow Harry]

The Russian military carried out a lot of work to see what was the best background for aircaft instruments in the cockpit - they came up with a light blue colour which you see in a lot of their designs.

Interestingly Microsoft did the same some years later and came to exactly the same conclusion - hence the blue background that used to be standard on all Windows products..........

[jensdad]

I see what you mean about it being a bit neat for the FSU, Harry, but the terminal area in the foreground looks like the new bit (maybe built with Western investment?) with the original airfield at left, which looks Warsaw Pact to my uneducated eyes. Could that be the Caspian Sea on the horizon?

[India Four Two]

I zoomed-in to see if I could identify the aircraft on the ramp, and I noticed the word EXPERIMENTAL reflected in the canopy. That and what appears to be a single-digit runway number, makes me think this is Alaska.

[Kewbick]

As it has been 24-hours since posting my challenge, a clue is in order. The mystery aerodrome is located in Russia.
https://i.imgur.com/uhBYX4q.jpg

[Cows getting bigger]

Ugolny Airport, Siberia. OH if correct.

[Kewbick]

What? No ICAO code? No history? And no challenge?..It is indeed UHMA Anadyr Russia Siberia Airport. Cows getting bigger is correct. OPEN HOUSE.

[Heathrow Harry]

So that's what I always thought was Anadyr ... DYR is the Russian Code

Lots of old rubbish there apparently and used for cold weather trials

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture744-index.jpg

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture743-2index.jpg

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture742-3index.jpg

[Kewbick]

UHMA is the ICAO code for the Anadyr aerodrome. A.K.A. Ugolny Airport.

It is a storied locale in Russia's history.

As Cows getting bigger has suggested, it is OPEN HOUSE

[chevvron]

Looks like military or ex military, ARP on the runway end and what seems to be parking bays on the taxiway.

Seems a bit of a daft design with the main apron where it is and only one taxiway from it direct to the runway.

[Cows getting bigger]

What? No ICAO code? No history? And no challenge?...I would be pleased to give you all of that info if I got it right.. Have you forgot this thread is titled: Aviation History and Nostalgia?

Err, sorry but I responded by iPhone from the apron at a testy 40 deg Celcius OMAD this morning. More important things to do than wax lyrical about Tu95s. :)

[Kewbick]

Indeed. Well done. We await a new "mystery aerodrome challenge"...

[Heathrow Harry]

"Seems a bit of a daft design with the main apron where it is and only one taxiway from it direct to the runway."

Apparently it was never a fullsclae base - they call it a "bounce" or "staging" airbase - presumably too remote for easy resupply and too close to both the sea and Alaska for a permanent base but usefull for dispersion, refueling and recovery

[nvubu]

Ok, a new mystery aerodrome challenge
https://kppr1a.bn1302.livefilestore.com/y4m5ma9K_rF1hUxUHOs9Y2jndKcxqh-8OJbtG3d37xqGdubi1AMTTHv-lzE2MpjGP9X0_p1n1SuWAuz536ADMRZVQcwR57lZT6ogmPc39X7Jg2Bw-rvPSfZxqw07TbX9cNbqilTTdth0sY--w1C0w6y1vrOe-AJurU2e32pvF5tqND9U-E2qTEL11_cenItgmJJ0kg4RvmIASdOJgmS6SUw_w?width=1024&height=778&cropmode=none

[kcockayne]

A wild stab - Hickham AFB, Honolulu.

[nvubu]

Although in the same hemisphere, Hickham is about as far from this airfield as it could be.

[India Four Two]

I detect deciduous trees and a Wellington lurking in the background, so "an airfield somewhere in England"?

[jensdad]

I'm going to take a wild guess. St. Eval?

[nvubu]

Jenkins has it, Bassingbourn it is. Over to you

[roving]

Approach from the West, land from the East on a Right Turn

[Cows getting bigger]

Somewhere in Belize?

[zetec2]

Is that taken from a single Pin ?

[roving]

Is that taken from a single Pin ?

It is a single Pin.

[roving]

Somewhere in Belize?

A long way from Belize.

[chimbu warrior]

A wild guess; somewhere in Sarawak?

[roving]

Close enough. In fact it is one of 10 jungle forts landing strips built by the Royal Engineers (with help from Australians) in Peninsular Malaysia (then Malaya) in the mid 1950's.

This one named Fort Chabai was, North to South from the border with Thailand, second.

The a/c was an RAF Squadron 267 (lated renumbered as 209) Single Engine Pioneer, which supplied the forts during the "Emergency". The need for forts in Sarawak arose 8 years later in the early 1960's.

The list of forts with landing strips was Kemar, Chabai, Legap, Brooke, Selim, Telanok, Dixon, Shean, Langkap and Iskander.

The "approach" photo was taken by my father in 1955/56 to assist new pilots on the Squadron.

Over to you chimbu warrier.

[chimbu warrior]

Like I say d it was a wild guess. Unable to post photos at present, so open house.

[India Four Two]

Try this one:

[India Four Two]

Clue number 2:

[kcockayne]

Clue number 2:
A Lockheed Electra, in South America?
Apart from that, I have no idea - & even that is likely to be wrong !

[India Four Two]

75% - must try harder!

Lockheed - tick.
Electra - tick.
America - tick.
South - wrong. ;)

[WIDN62]

The Electra is Air Spray Tanker 482. Air Spray are based at Chico, California but that doesn't look like that area. How about Alaska?

[India Four Two]

Not Alaska.

Yes, Airspray is based in Chico but also somewhere else. Look it up. ;)

[WIDN62]

Red Deer, Alberta is their other base, but again it's not that. Somewhere near there?

[India Four Two]

Near is a relative term, but this location is certainly closer to Red Deer than Alaska is.

[India Four Two]

Clue number 3.

This photo was taken during a flood. The water level is not normally this high.

[WIDN62]

I42

Nobody else seems to be up for this challenge, so may I ask for some more clarification?
North America seems pretty certain.....?
Western side of the continent and therefore the Rocky Mountains.....?
If the Rockies, it looks more like the Eastern side of them because they get close to the Ocean on the west and there can't be many rivers like that.
You pointed me towards the other base for AirSpray, so does that make it Canada?

[India Four Two]

WIDN62,

Yes, it’s Canada and it’s a river, although to be fair, in the last picture, you are looking at a lake on the river.

BTW, the mountains are not “The Rockies”, although I know that term is used generically in Western North America.

[Kewbick]

Revelstoke, B.C. (CYRV).

[India Four Two]

Well done kewbick.

I’m surprised it lasted so long.

The mountains behind the Electra, to the west, are part of the Monashee Mountains and the ones in the last picture are the Selkirk Mountains to the east of Revelstoke. The river is the Columbia which at this point is flowing into Upper Arrow Lake.

kewbick has control.

[WIDN62]

I now know why it looked vaguely familiar. We had an awful night there a couple of years ago. The hotel put us in a room at the back to be away from the traffic - unfortunately it faced the railroad and we spent the night listening to the squeal of metal as the freight trains trundled through!

[India Four Two]

I know the feeling! I live 100 m from a fairly busy railway line near Calgary, with three level-crossings nearby. If I’ve been away, I wake up several times a night to the sound of locomotive horns approaching the crossings.

It takes about a week before I can sleep through the noise!

[Kewbick]

Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
https://i.imgur.com/9C1MoWy.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

Louisiana? Florida??

B-52's???

[Kewbick]

No. No. and Yes.

[SMOKEON]

Eielson A.F.B., Alaska.

[Kewbick]

SMOKEON is correct.:ok: Your turn.

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,Kewbick.
Open House.

[WIDN62]

Not sure if this will work, but just to get the thread going again:

3027

[englishkev]

Not Berne Belp is it?

[WIDN62]

No it isn't, Kev.

[Heathrow Harry]

something with a fairly large tail left centre- scheduled service?

[chevvron]

From the pine trees, north west Europe possibly Poland?

[WIDN62]

Yes to scheduled service - but not many!
Yes to NW Europe.
No to Poland.

[Heathrow Harry]

german Speaking?

[WIDN62]

Not the national language although there has been a German influence - this is in the History section after all!

[WIDN62]

The airline will give you the country. Evidence of German occupation (so I am told!) in the other photo.

3033

3034

[chevvron]

First photo looks like BA colours circa 1990s.
Second photo appears to have suffered a 'Tallboy' or 'Grand Slam' effect.

[Airclues]

First photo looks like BA colours circa 1990s.

I don't know which airline it is, but it isn't BA.

Dave

[WIDN62]

Not Switzerland and not BA.

The airline amalgamated with a larger regional airline and lost its identity.

[WIDN62]

If you can zoom in, you may be able to identify the airline. There are other aircraft visible as well.
3035

[dixi188]

Looks like Braathens, so Norway. Perhaps Oslo Gardemoen before expansion, looks like Saab fighters.

[sycamore]

Second picture suggests a nother parallel taxiway(bottom left with lighting).
Marker boards height suggest heavy-ish snowfall,and a/c postion suggests a runway of possibly 8000ft length(unless it was going around).
Hangar in hill and taxiway suggest smaller fighter aircraft.
Possibly Scandinavia,Norway...?

[WIDN62]

Braathens - Yes.
Norway - Yes.
The other aircraft are trainers.
No fighters based there but often use the place.
I believe the underground aircraft shelters were built in the Second World war.
Oslo - no.
8000 feet - very good - actually 8015!!

[Airclues]

Bardufoss?

OH if correct as I cheated....I googled "8015ft runway Norway"

Dave

[WIDN62]

Yes indeed - Bardufoss! I didn't think it would be that hard.

Open House.

[Heathrow Harry]

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture760-2017-09-17-112309.jpg[

[Kewbick]

Is it in Canada ?

[Heathrow Harry]

Quite a long way from Canada ...............................

[chevvron]

Grantley Adams?

[Heathrow Harry]

Wrong Continent

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture758-2017-09-17-112037.jpg

[sycamore]

France,ex- mil..?

[Heathrow Harry]

right country............... probably ex-Mil

[eckhard]

Lille Lesquin.

OH if correct.

[Heathrow Harry]

C'est bon!!!

Lille Lesquin...........

[WIDN62]

Try this one.....

[eckhard]

Somewhere in Florida after the hurricane?

[WIDN62]

Not Florida.

[Heathrow Harry]

Orange County?

[Mark 1]

Houston (after Hurricane Harvey?). Maybe KIWS.

[WIDN62]

Wrong country. Here are parts of the hangar door - it makes you appreciate the power of the weather.
3077
I realise there are not many clues there - the photo with better clues has the name of the airport on a fire engine and I am not clever enough to block it out! To help, try 2004.
3078

[kcockayne]

Do I read New Orleans ?

[India Four Two]

Wrong country

Puerto Rico or US Virgin Islands?

[WIDN62]

No, but getting closer.

Final clue - Ivan.

[nvubu]

Owen Roberts International Airport, Grand Cayman ?

[WIDN62]

nvubu,

Yes it is.

3084

Over to you.

[nvubu]

Bit of a mess. If someone else want to jump in before I can post a new "old" aerodrome, please do.

[nvubu]

My guess is this won't last long. Not an old one this time around.
https://ool7yg-bn1ap000.files.1drv.com/y4mOMUV2ROUtL29YOxAs3k5xRLJr3jMULqpBPy3ONltBiRf8nr29dWAgbj47 jX6SzjOdK_TMg6zdxjKL5qm45yb4rxbaREtLhh7JjnKAuAzDO9QAaNGhaCCE JKRLymhyP1n7naA1VrjMDqH_NX_Au3YorxitxgUCtvkPQG-3-KZGVUATbeYpmhu_O3xxl4WOjjf7Af-FLaQ2iQGJdTmWur3EQ?width=1024&height=576&cropmode=none

[jensdad]

Situated between a pretty big river and some wooded hills at right. One long-looking runway (or maybe two parallel ones) with a lot of airfield buildings but no big apron, so I'm thinking military-built. Would that be the old CFB Lahr, or Baden Aeropark or whatever it's called these days?

[India Four Two]

I think jensdad has it - it looks like Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport, but it was not CFB Lahr, which is further upstream. It was RCAF/CFB Baden–Soellingen.

[nvubu]

jensdad has it, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport it is, over to you.

[jensdad]

I just scraped over the line with that one. I really thought that this airfield was the old CFB Lahr. You live and learn!


Was it at one point called 'Baden Aeropark' or something similar? I'm sure one of the refurbished Cold War fields in Germany was called something like that... maybe I dreamt it :) EDIT: The business enterprise that owns it is called 'Baden Airpark'.


Nothing to hand so OPEN HOUSE.

[WIDN62]

Another one from me to keep the thread going:

3122

[WIDN62]

Very good - what took you so long?

Are you familiar with the place?

[Bill Macgillivray]

Jenks,

Would that have been the Rawdah Bowl, perhaps? Very challenging in the Skyvan but very impressive!!!

Bill

[Heathrow Harry]

http://www.pprune.org/[IMG]http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture765-2017-09-28-103535.jpghttp://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture765-2017-09-28-103535.jpg

Doubt it'll last long................

[sidtheesexist]

Well now, looks like an A320/319 wing.....small, regional airport type architecture, grey leaden, overcast skies, a bit damp.......some coniferous trees maybe?
Long shot, somewhere in the Northern hemisphere??!!
Am I warm ?

[Heathrow Harry]

Correct on all counts ... so far.................

[Harry Wayfarers]

Former Soviet Union?

[Heathrow Harry]

No but closer than "N Hemisphere"................

[sycamore]

Back in Norway...?

[Heathrow Harry]

not that far north................

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture766-2017-09-28-103719.jpg

[jensdad]

Those church spires in the background look like they are somewhere in the old Hapsburg empire. Some big mountains there as well that look like they are to the North-ish of the airfield. Kosice?

[Heathrow Harry]

might be the old Hapsburg area - certainly close - but not Kosice

[kcockayne]

A stab in the dark ...... Timisoara ?

[Heathrow Harry]

far too far east

[SMOKEON]

Memmingen (Allgäu Airport).

[Heathrow Harry]

Correct - Smokeon has the con

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture767-2017-09-28-103740.jpg

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,HH.
Open House.

[nvubu]

Here's the next mystery aerodrome
https://cicuuw.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mcGspGjAhU6yfXyuUxATrvp1UNjEzM-PyJ_WQRZRDQ27Bma7efPjnDaEzN0Gb0oGCMfAFJohv7MHvnKKq-k_As2jYxWuq-edXoq2WHVlH19S2vODH9XaFWm994UPBWz8DwXLXzxiJK8z8kYWym8kh1GZTF N8PCuiv-_Y4DDwPjIkN0q5SYL1L3CDQ5qq6958OS3VoxWR7miKk5RmrU2dzVg?width= 1024&height=838&cropmode=none

[Heathrow Harry]

Sea side? Not sure I like that big hill just off the runway.............

[creweite]

If they were intending to land they were SOL!!

Reminds me of my old instructor's story. With ATA and delivering a Wellington, there was a construction crew on the taxiway with a steam roller, so he took to the grass, being guided by on of the work crew. Given the thumbs up to go ahead, he opened up and knocked the funnel off the stream roller! Obviously they had no idea that the trailing edge of the wing was lower than the leading edge!

[Heathrow Harry]

Small shadows - so near the equator - or nearer than London - so say 40N to 40S

the guy on the right looks like he has a US style hard hat on ....... but it might be a pithhelmet......

[kcockayne]

Bobcat or Oxford?

I was thinking Consul & late '40s to 50s.

[nvubu]

Sea Side - yes
North of the equator - yes
Closer than London - yes
US hard hat - yes


Does this help any?
https://atlpjg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4m6u9DzWmO88zEflr8ZBIkRaliUKhTrtA7WxjUBtex0RBHKDjOuKbb4QgIB sD6Qb8mkd3D5ayNdAhDHIcql4QTz_6_MVmdSq8B11o8FX4lkmhF369FgspVj Ho40gMn8L14hApS-vOhL1tGL_52ByO0a-CrvTxLwnKC4RO4xBCew8BucHRT87vA2NdxSTLp2pukumnIDsK-c8tGy_aS7ccctQ?width=1024&height=859&cropmode=none

[kcockayne]

Ah well,
C130. Certainly not in the 40s & only an outside chance of the late 50s. Probably not a Consul, either !

[nvubu]

2 photos are 1969 & 1970.

[WIDN62]

Is it Vietnam?

[nvubu]

Vietnam it is

[nvubu]

https://bk72ma.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mvBKSEG7hQtTkCgavsyP6A3ciu6JGvAsj2bA4m2WcGxZoGNfnu_PqeJNNM Q8EKg5EYoPZCe-SWYFLEbyFliV0V5V92SHirwQcVUgOETwhMDa0a3CjFU98GHZn5YJpc3cBT4O Ks1zX1QL1xRjSkbCfSYZP0ZCxy6F0fbvAK9a6OrYks7k6C0hLq1ExWpOp_hQ P_pz6LCfqEkUCBIyVEyQqlw?width=1024&height=770&cropmode=none

[jensdad]

Seeing as you provided a map, nvubu, I've broken my self-imposed rule of not using Google Maps. The big black dot on the map in the tower seems to be just inland from a place called Qui Nhon, but there isn't anything that resembles an airfield there!

[India Four Two]

Well spotted, jensdad. Your observation made me look at Quy Nhon/Qui Nhon again, which I had previously dismissed, as my search led me to Phu Cat Airport, which doesn't have any hills nearby.

My new research led me to this:

The base is now covered with commercial buildings while the former runway is now Nguyễn Tất Thành road. The city is served commercially by Phu Cat Airport.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_Nhơn_Airfield

and to the attached 1967 picture. I thought I knew a lot about airfields in Vietnam, but this was a complete surprise. A major airfield completely enveloped by a city.

Great challenge, nvubu.

If correct, I think jensdad deserves to take the helm.

PS The name for the street down the runway, Nguyễn Tất Thành, was one of Hồ Chí Minh's aliases.

[jensdad]

Very gracious of you, I42, but if you're correct I'll let you have this one (I'm still feeling a bit guilty about being given Baden Sollingen when I actually thought it was Lahr :) ). I just gauged roughly where the black dot was and had a quick look for anything resembling an airfield, without any success!

[nvubu]

I thought the map would give it away. Qui Nhon it is.

Here's the tower from the outside.
https://x31ivg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mKs0gKLZfRRiX-2X1VZ1WnombYlAzLzVDPl0kriDfMV3gSmv8cAUOnFYC40GX6j9w1j74oAhnz FgWKrhZA2ubtQU-ic8MGKEhDa5eE9yvoOfXhloeWuhUYi77qjcIQP46fIBa11AIpsL8Id43FRJu L_iP0LCgohQ4vUrqTnRXRUp5kil4ZNPGTGQkZ63cb-5Sc30cJH_gbE_hpBLB7q2J5w?width=1024&height=776&cropmode=none

I started with this image - which does match up with the layout of the roads today.
https://atlsjg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4m6rRc2xe7_2XReV_iW6_NvDHSHvzgwmjaJ1TEPPgHbLDhs8QZXqN6O3VBs 24oW48R2wTi_8MB1wUInJziVyN-TPBq8AQv_uODmXXZFeMilXHsylbHCUT9i96NSAXOrnMnBGpx_gPWz6GcILwo fB6f2n32s7yQr-GUrA93HKzAGe_fTfte27-DZ2KoY99bj_Ao-CusWtuiy6Ry7lTzBNqo3g?width=630&height=1024&cropmode=none


Well done Jensdad, but as offered - I42 has the helm

[India Four Two]

Thanks, nvubu

I'm not sure if this one has been done before..

[nvubu]

Australia ?

[chevvron]

It's a bloody big Bessoneaux wherever it is!

[India Four Two]

Wrong hemisphere.

[spook]

..but U.S. Territory?

[India Four Two]

..but U.S. Territory?

Sometimes ;)

[spook]

Ah! So that would be - (I assume we are in WWII era) it was theirs then it wasn't and then they got it back? So one of the multitude of islands in the Pacific?

[India Four Two]

Yes, a Pacific island.

Now you see it, now you don't!

[India Four Two]

Two airfields being bombed. One still in use, the other long gone.

[chevvron]

Iwo Jima had lots of airfields; somewhere I have an 'After the Battle' about it.

[India Four Two]

chevvron,

This island is very much larger than Iwo Jima.

[Sultan Ismail]

May I suggest this is Nielsen Airfield, Luzon Island, Philippines.
Now known as Makati, Metro Manila.