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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
Here are some "rules" for Which Aerodrome. These are based upon the original suggestions from the very first thread, and have a few additions. Also please be patient as when you are active others may be asleep.
 Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu. 
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Sorry SH, wrong continent.
The image is lacking in features other than that cloud - so here is a photo of the overnight hotel - which is still there, although somewhat changed.
The image is lacking in features other than that cloud - so here is a photo of the overnight hotel - which is still there, although somewhat changed.
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Hmmmm... not sure I should give that to you SD as your source has the country wrong. 
It's shown in the correct country on the map 
I'm just popping out for a couple of hours, so once you've corrected the country, feel free to take control.
Hint: It's the Pearl of Africa you want.
It's shown in the correct country on the map I'm just popping out for a couple of hours, so once you've corrected the country, feel free to take control.
Hint: It's the Pearl of Africa you want.
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I'm sure that sabredog actually meant Uganda.
Dave
PS. Is that building now part of the Lake Victoria Hotel? Stayed there in 1969 with BOAC and it looks familiar.
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PS. Is that building now part of the Lake Victoria Hotel? Stayed there in 1969 with BOAC and it looks familiar.
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He does have control - I was being pedantic as he is usually so accurate.
Although in this region there might have been an issue as names change, and so do country borders - e.g. Port Florence (Kisumu) was the terminus of the Uganda railway, this was in Uganda at the time. It was decided that as the rest of the railway was in Kenya that the border should be changed changed to incorporate it. It was changed and the railway, still called the Uganda Railway, no longer went to Uganda. Couple of very interesting books on this region: The Lunatic Express: An Entertainment in Imperialism and The White Nile by Alan Moorehead.
Airclues: the hotel is the Silver Springs hotel, which is on the road from Port Bell to Kampala. It has changed completely since this photo, even in the last 10 years it has been rebuilt since I knew it in the 90's/00's.
Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe is largely unchanged, although they have moved the entrance from where you would have known it to round the back - and rather scruffy and downbeat, and the entrance and drive is now a terrace and pathways through the gardens.
SD - over to you
Although in this region there might have been an issue as names change, and so do country borders - e.g. Port Florence (Kisumu) was the terminus of the Uganda railway, this was in Uganda at the time. It was decided that as the rest of the railway was in Kenya that the border should be changed changed to incorporate it. It was changed and the railway, still called the Uganda Railway, no longer went to Uganda. Couple of very interesting books on this region: The Lunatic Express: An Entertainment in Imperialism and The White Nile by Alan Moorehead.
Airclues: the hotel is the Silver Springs hotel, which is on the road from Port Bell to Kampala. It has changed completely since this photo, even in the last 10 years it has been rebuilt since I knew it in the 90's/00's.
Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe is largely unchanged, although they have moved the entrance from where you would have known it to round the back - and rather scruffy and downbeat, and the entrance and drive is now a terrace and pathways through the gardens.
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Thank you,nvubu and Airclues. I misread the caption to the photograph which was exactly the same as the challenge, complete with the CB .
The next, more modern challenge;
The next, more modern challenge;