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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.

A historic picture of an aerodrome will be posted. Newer pictures are allowed but the theme here is to compare/contrast old with new as well as identifying aerodromes which no longer exist.
The person who correctly identifies it will be declared the 'winner' by the original poster.
That winner shall either post another challenge or declare the floor open. Anyone may then post the next challenge.
If the winner of the challenge does not respond to the notification of their success within 48 hours, an Open house can be declared when there is consensus between multiple other posters which are on line.
When the poster of a challenge does not respond within 48 hours of a posted answer, this poster can be declared winner if the answer is considered correct in a consensus of multiple other posters.
If Open House is declared, regular posters should not jump in immediately, but time should be given for those who are not great at naming the correct location as they may have some good images.
There will only be one challenge running at a time.
Try to use elderly photos and not Google Earth, Zoom Earth or any other search engine, pics
Try to post images that are not already present on internet, as Google Image Search will find them if they are.
Personal photos are acceptable as they show the aerodrome as it is now.
When confirming the correct location, the location and winner should be stated to negate any deletion of posts.
Please don't delete your posts, let everyone see your successes, failures and challenges.

Anyone can edit it so long as they have been here for 90 days with 90 posts. Let's get consensus before changing and not go crazy

Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu.

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7th Dec 2018, 23:32

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India Four Two

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Terry,

Where is the Lae airport now?

8th Dec 2018, 00:08

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Terry Dactil

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Moved 35Km NW up the Markham valley to Nadzab

8th Dec 2018, 03:09

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India Four Two

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Thanks Terry. I looked up Nadzab on Wikipedia and found this comment interesting:

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The airport in Lae was operating at the same time as Nadzab but business was significantly lost when the new airport complex became fully operational in 1977. Fierce political squabbling over the pros and cons of Lae and Nadzab continued until 1982, when, in an unsolved mystery, the Lae airport terminal was burned down.

8th Dec 2018, 04:30

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Sam Asama

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All of PNG is an unsolved mystery. And I hope it stays that way...

8th Dec 2018, 07:05

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Since it's OH ...................

I'm out until 16:00 ish Zulu so let your imagination run riot for a few hours - .........................

8th Dec 2018, 09:11

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dook

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Interesting. Looks earth/sand but with green landscape beyond. Perhaps it's fairly newly constructed.

Europe maybe.

8th Dec 2018, 10:31

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kenparry

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I will make a stab at:

Knock, EIKN

8th Dec 2018, 10:42

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Self loading bear

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I do not believe Knock is the Knock-out.
side of turning point extension and position of taxiway do not match.
i think we can search further.

SLB

8th Dec 2018, 10:42

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dook

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I'll stab at New Murcia Corvera.

8th Dec 2018, 15:26

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dook

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Anyone interested in Huesca-Pirineos ?

8th Dec 2018, 17:19

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Asturias56

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Dios mio!!!!

you go out for an evening with friends & come back to find Dook spends the whole days searching every airport in Europe!!!

Huesca it is - I had a couple of other pictures that I thought might be necessary

y

8th Dec 2018, 17:29

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dook

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Quote:

….come back to find Dook spends the whole days searching every airport in Europe!!! come back to find Dook spends the whole days searching every airport in Europe!!!

I am retired and unable to walk very far at all and my wife is away in Poland, so I have lots of time on my hands. I also had a bit of luck finding it although from the terrain I convinced myself it was Spain.

8th Dec 2018, 17:35

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For some reason I thought Manchester, but the rising ground in the distance does not quite fit. Still somewhere in the UK though?

8th Dec 2018, 17:48

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dook

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We are not in the UK.

8th Dec 2018, 17:56

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Luqa as first guess, and I think I have found a photograph. Shackleton helped of course. I visited once in a Vanguard, 1971.

8th Dec 2018, 18:33

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dook

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Jenkins gets a direct hit.

8th Dec 2018, 19:19

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JENKINS

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Or is it a Hastings? Thanks. My Vanguard trip was second leg of journey from Gulf to sick mother in Malta. First leg of return was, by choice, with a squadron which numbered K76 in its ranks, and was to a secret sailing club with an airfield on the South coast of England.

Now this. One from this parish lives close by, and the road was a stretch of highway between two cities in which strong vested interests fought to avoid any improvement. I confirm it as in the United Kingdom.