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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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Oh alright - here you go
I've got a slightly unusual one 1:00:25 to 1:02:42
I don't know where this is (apart from somewhere on Zanzibar)
Anyone able to pin point the airstrip?
also what country had the aircraft registration "OR" as I can't find that either.
I've got a slightly unusual one 1:00:25 to 1:02:42
I don't know where this is (apart from somewhere on Zanzibar)
Anyone able to pin point the airstrip?
also what country had the aircraft registration "OR" as I can't find that either.
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I don't think it is. If you listen to the film the narrator states that they have been denied landing permission at Zanzibar Airport so they have landed at a disused runway to the north.
Unless the Zanzibar airport in 1964 was somewhere else?
Search google images for Kisauni Airport 1960 - too much infrastructure for this airstrip
Unless the Zanzibar airport in 1964 was somewhere else?
Search google images for Kisauni Airport 1960 - too much infrastructure for this airstrip
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The lat/long I have given is the NE corner of Zanzibar, not Ethiopia.
5 degrees 46 minutes 10 seconds S and thirty nine degrees 20 minutes 6 seconds E.
Sorry - my first post said N not S.
5 degrees 46 minutes 10 seconds S and thirty nine degrees 20 minutes 6 seconds E.
Sorry - my first post said N not S.
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Yeah I'd seen that one, but I'm fairly sure that is a later addition (and not an airstrip) as it only appeared between the 2015 & 2016 image.
I think you are right that this may be one that is now lost to the mists of time - it was 55 years ago.
I visited Zanzibar in 1991, and it looks to have changed hugely since then. I knew that there had been a revolution in Zanzibar in the early 1960s but I hadn't realised quite how violent it was. The whole film is a bit of an eye opener, and I thought that I was quite knowledgeable about the end of colonialism in Africa.
Any thoughts of the aircraft registration? I'd assume Tanganyika as the film says that they were hired from the mainland.
There is another airfield at 01:47:48 I think it is Elizabethville/Lubumbashi, but not 100% on this.
I'm happy to pass control back to Flap40 - I'll keep on looking around for info about it and post up if I can find anything.
I think you are right that this may be one that is now lost to the mists of time - it was 55 years ago.
I visited Zanzibar in 1991, and it looks to have changed hugely since then. I knew that there had been a revolution in Zanzibar in the early 1960s but I hadn't realised quite how violent it was. The whole film is a bit of an eye opener, and I thought that I was quite knowledgeable about the end of colonialism in Africa.
Any thoughts of the aircraft registration? I'd assume Tanganyika as the film says that they were hired from the mainland.
There is another airfield at 01:47:48
I think it is Elizabethville/Lubumbashi, but not 100% on this.I'm happy to pass control back to Flap40 - I'll keep on looking around for info about it and post up if I can find anything.
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OK, to summarise again, This airfield existed because of the industrial plant next door. They operated a DC-3 and a DC-4. The plant is still in production but this airfield is no longer visible. There is a newer strip to serve the plant nearby.
