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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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Which Aerodrome Mk III
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Congratulations Flap40!
It is indeed Lyon-Satolas or more precisely Lyon-Saint-Exupéry. The photo was showing the still visible runway of ALG Y-34 which is now like properly indicated by Flap40 lying under other constructions and rubble in the SW corner of the airport footprint.
The Y-34 airfield saw use in Sept 1944 with the F5 Lightning of the 23rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron and the F6 Mustang of the 111th Reconnaissance Squadron.
You have the helm Flap40!
It is indeed Lyon-Satolas or more precisely Lyon-Saint-Exupéry. The photo was showing the still visible runway of ALG Y-34 which is now like properly indicated by Flap40 lying under other constructions and rubble in the SW corner of the airport footprint.
The Y-34 airfield saw use in Sept 1944 with the F5 Lightning of the 23rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron and the F6 Mustang of the 111th Reconnaissance Squadron.
You have the helm Flap40!
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It is in Canada, but not a BCATP field. Those are Canadian-made Curtiss Jennys.
(Actually Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. JN-4 Canucks).
(Actually Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. JN-4 Canucks).
Last edited by evansb; 23rd Dec 2012 at 21:12.
Your turn.
Jack's Granddad
Evansb has it, it's the German WW1 seaplane base on the mole at Zeebrugge.
The first pic shows a Bleriot landing on the mole. This machine was captured from the Belgian forces and used for a while by the Germans. It's engine was later transplanted into a Fokker aircraft.
Over to what I suspect is a slightly nippy Lethbridge!
Following the occupation of the Belgian coast, a seaplane base was established at Zeebrugge in December 1914. Aircraft were kept in the railway station hall at the end of the Mole, fully assembled on specially constructed flat railway cars which carried tools, fabric, dope, etc for minor repairs, as well as supplies of water, fuel and oil. Locomotives were kept with steam up and were always available to pull the trains out on to the Mole and up to the cranes used to lift and lower the seaplanes to the water. In this early 1915 scene no national insignia are displayed on the upper wing surfaces of these Friedrichshafen FF29 seaplanes or the Oertz flying-boat numbered 46, but wing undersurfaces were marked spanwise with the straight-sided cross, as seen on the Oertz's rudder.
Over to what I suspect is a slightly nippy Lethbridge!
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Yes t'was cold last few nights, -24C, but presently have light Chinook winds giving rise to a balmy -3C. (Temp will change more degrees here in 12-hours than any point in Great Britain in 365 days). Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
Last edited by evansb; 28th Dec 2012 at 16:33.