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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
just a nondescript open field now.
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Thought that would help. Yes Morhange Aerodrome / Mörchingen Flugplatz it is. Unlike the 2nd world war, there was nothing phony about the start of the first. I couldn't believe how active and bloody August 1914 was until I researched the airfield.
The auction I found is here - some interesting images.
Over to you Terry
The auction I found is here - some interesting images.
Over to you Terry
Well this one will last about 30 seconds, given the huge clue with the aircraft (it's just to keep the thread going, Your Honour):
Laverton it is, now covered by housing.
Actually my previous submission (Werribee), lies just out of the top of the frame.
Over to you...
Actually my previous submission (Werribee), lies just out of the top of the frame.
Over to you...
I did think about winding Ted up by saying "it's McIntyre Field"!
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Wanna buy a Kittyhawk for 15 pounds?
Tocumwal (aka McIntyre Field 
) it is.
For those not familiar with the region it used to look like this.
Interesting history.
Wanna buy a Kittyhawk for 15 pounds?
From 'History of the Tocumwal Airfield and its surrounds (by Bob Brown)' Link-
This photo is from the B-24 restoration project archives (well worth a look) Home | B-24 Liberator Restoration Australia
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) it is.For those not familiar with the region it used to look like this.
Interesting history.
Wanna buy a Kittyhawk for 15 pounds?
From 'History of the Tocumwal Airfield and its surrounds (by Bob Brown)' Link-
At the war's end, Tocumwal as Australia's major aircraft depot, received hundreds upon hundreds of all types of aircraft for mothballing and storage. The rows of aircraft, packed wing tip to wing tip stretched as far as the eye could see, from one perimeter fence to the other. Nobody wanted these faithful machines that served Australia so well. Everyone wanted to forget the war and alll things warlike.
After languishing in the elements for ten years or more, they were all, every last one of them, chopped up and smelted down into ingots of aluminium. Post-war, with everything in short supply, aluminium was a much needed commodity. It was needed for pots and pans and for the new Holden motorcar coming into production. Scrap metal merchants set up smelters on the aerodrome and bought the planes by the hundreds - 157 Pounds 12 Shillings and 6 pence each for complete Beaufighters, 20 Pounds for Beaufords, 15 Pounds for Kittyhawks, 8 Pounds for Vultee Vengeances - Liberators, Flying Fortresses, Mustangs, Mosquitoes, Wirraways, all went to the furnaces.
Today, any one of these aircraft would be priceless. It's easy to be wise after the event, but it's beyond understanding that someone, somewhere did not have the foresight to save a few of these Australian treasures. Similarly, nearly all the 450 aerodrome buildings and all the hospital buildings were sold and removed. After the war when building materials were virtually unobtainable, the hangars, huts and workshops were snapped up by builders, giving no thought to any historical value.
After languishing in the elements for ten years or more, they were all, every last one of them, chopped up and smelted down into ingots of aluminium. Post-war, with everything in short supply, aluminium was a much needed commodity. It was needed for pots and pans and for the new Holden motorcar coming into production. Scrap metal merchants set up smelters on the aerodrome and bought the planes by the hundreds - 157 Pounds 12 Shillings and 6 pence each for complete Beaufighters, 20 Pounds for Beaufords, 15 Pounds for Kittyhawks, 8 Pounds for Vultee Vengeances - Liberators, Flying Fortresses, Mustangs, Mosquitoes, Wirraways, all went to the furnaces.
Today, any one of these aircraft would be priceless. It's easy to be wise after the event, but it's beyond understanding that someone, somewhere did not have the foresight to save a few of these Australian treasures. Similarly, nearly all the 450 aerodrome buildings and all the hospital buildings were sold and removed. After the war when building materials were virtually unobtainable, the hangars, huts and workshops were snapped up by builders, giving no thought to any historical value.
This photo is from the B-24 restoration project archives (well worth a look) Home | B-24 Liberator Restoration Australia
chimbu warrior em i tok 'OPEN HOUSE"
Last edited by Terry Dactil; 15th Dec 2016 at 07:53.
Since you insist. 
Here's one I've driven past a few times and never knew it was there.
Not surprising really, considering it's on top of a hill and surrounded by trees.
Here's one I've driven past a few times and never knew it was there.
Not surprising really, considering it's on top of a hill and surrounded by trees.
No. Further south.
bri,
That's amazing. Such a precisely defined answer and so precisely wrong!
I just had to look it up. I can't believe there is another field with such a similar runway layout.
Go further south.
That's amazing. Such a precisely defined answer and so precisely wrong!
I just had to look it up. I can't believe there is another field with such a similar runway layout.
Go further south.
Time for a clue.
Go MUCH further south.
Here's where you turn off the highway to go to the mystery aerodrome:
Go MUCH further south.
Here's where you turn off the highway to go to the mystery aerodrome:
Last edited by India Four Two; 17th Dec 2016 at 17:54.
It may be correct, but it's not right!