Identification old (European) ICAO airport codes

[Maximiliaan]

Dear folks,


I hope you can help me identify some of the ICAO airport codes in this list. I´m submitting this question here for a friend of mine who is aviation historian and who is writing an article about a certain pilot. The codes come from his logbook and date from the early 1950s. Many of the codes changed over the years and some of the airports have been closed or are not in use anymore:



DAHF Hamburg (Fuhlsbüttel)?
DALO Lohausen for Düsseldorf?
DAWA Wahn for Cologne?
DDRM Rhein-Main for Frankfur?
EAMD Madrid?
FFNI Nice?
GALA London Airport, but which airport?
GALB one of the London airports?
GJBA
ITKO Rome Ciampino?
ITLD
ODRM
ONZO


Thanks for your help!


Regards,
Max Groot

[Talkdownman]

GALA was Heathrow ('London Airport').

Here's some more UK civil aerodromes.

GABA Croydon
GAOA Blackbushe
GASA Eastleigh
GASU Portsmouth
GASR Hamble
GAUA Hurn
GAVA Lulsgate

and some Hampshire military:

MAXF Farnborough
MAYO Odiham
MAZL Lasham

So far unable to decode GALB and GJBA

The changes occurred 1959-60.

[welkyboy]

ONZO might be Knokke le Zoute. ON.. Was Belgium. ONOS was Ostend, now EBOS. I remember these when working in ATC at Southend in 1959

[Talkdownman]

In which case could ODRM be Rotterdam...

[wrecker]

EGWA
Andover

[Direct Hackley Head]

Was the pilot also a helicopter pilot, because according to my records GALB was the South Bank heliport (and used before the Battersea heliport was built). GJBA = Manchester Ringway.