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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
So kind with your clues, LFH.
Palikulo Field, Espiritu Santo?
Palikulo Field, Espiritu Santo?
Sorry Simon, been in the garden. Not Espiritu Santu. Hope this helps - Same field, same photographer, same day in mid- 60s.
PS. This'll get the WIWOH brigade going (not me or you I think.)
Say when you want more clues. LFH
PS. This'll get the WIWOH brigade going (not me or you I think.)
Say when you want more clues. LFH
Last edited by Lordflasheart; 20th Apr 2013 at 19:08.
Good guess Chevy, but it's not any of the several Christmas Islands. I think the Christmas you mean ?? is now Kiritimati. Where the 
tests took place - that one happens to be just north of the equator anyway. I saw a pic on wiki of a Hastings flying overhead -
This challenge was built by Japanese forces in WWII - captured by the allies and featured ops by USAAF, RAAF and RNZAF while based there. Still operating civil in much the same layout.
I will dig out the precise date and see if it says why they were there. Post more clue later. LFH
tests took place - that one happens to be just north of the equator anyway. I saw a pic on wiki of a Hastings flying overhead - This challenge was built by Japanese forces in WWII - captured by the allies and featured ops by USAAF, RAAF and RNZAF while based there. Still operating civil in much the same layout.
I will dig out the precise date and see if it says why they were there. Post more clue later. LFH
Correct JW. 
But it was a landaway 
June 1966.
Runway is about 16. The two-tone is explained on the back of the snap as
"Rolled coral surface. Bitumen surfacing taking place. R/W half done."
Bet it din' 'arf complicate the roundout. LFH
But it was a landaway June 1966. Runway is about 16. The two-tone is explained on the back of the snap as
"Rolled coral surface. Bitumen surfacing taking place. R/W half done."
Bet it din' 'arf complicate the roundout. LFH
mo' clue ?
The several day round trip appears to have included in this order -
Changi - Jesselton - Challenge - Tontouta - Rarotonga - Nandi - Port Moresby - Zamboanga - Changi.
LFH
The several day round trip appears to have included in this order -
Changi - Jesselton - Challenge - Tontouta - Rarotonga - Nandi - Port Moresby - Zamboanga - Changi.
LFH
Last edited by Lordflasheart; 21st Apr 2013 at 19:27.
Well done Flaps, Momote it is. Apparently the only operating field left in the Admiralty Is archipelago, from about half a dozen all now overgrown. The Brits used two (Ponam and Pitilyu) quite heavily in 1945 in connection with the British Pacific Fleet's "forward" anchorage at Manus - Seeadler Harbour, from their Sydney base, en route to the campaigns off Okinawa, Sakishima and mainland Japan. LFH
Flap40 has declared Open House.
Momote it is. Apparently the only operating field left in the Admiralty Is archipelago, from about half a dozen all now overgrown. The Brits used two (Ponam and Pitilyu) quite heavily in 1945 in connection with the British Pacific Fleet's "forward" anchorage at Manus - Seeadler Harbour, from their Sydney base, en route to the campaigns off Okinawa, Sakishima and mainland Japan. LFHFlap40 has declared Open House.
Nice try Sid, but not Jesselton-on-the-beach. No 'oggin, and some distance from the 'oggin. This place was undergoing significant enlargement at the time and saw some "interesting times." Lets say it was within a Hastings range of Changi. A second photo clue available when you are ready. LFH