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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
OK - to the challenge................ this is a very tenuous trail..............
Looks like a civil Avro504K to me - only 300 on the register so....
last letter of the Reg looks like it's a L - if so (Very big IF) we have
G -EAWL - which seems to have operated for the Welsh Aviation Co out of Neath - can't find a single picture of the company or the old airfield,
EAUL & EAOL were owned by Vickers and I doubt they have had a big AVRO sign on the side
same goes for those owned by Handley Page G-EATL & EASL,
sort of leaves G-EALL that operated out of Northolt & Shoreham for Central Aircraft Co as a trainer
The hangars in the challenge look a bit more Northolt than Shoreham to me
Looks like a civil Avro504K to me - only 300 on the register so....
last letter of the Reg looks like it's a L - if so (Very big IF) we have
G -EAWL - which seems to have operated for the Welsh Aviation Co out of Neath - can't find a single picture of the company or the old airfield,
EAUL & EAOL were owned by Vickers and I doubt they have had a big AVRO sign on the side
same goes for those owned by Handley Page G-EATL & EASL,
sort of leaves G-EALL that operated out of Northolt & Shoreham for Central Aircraft Co as a trainer
The hangars in the challenge look a bit more Northolt than Shoreham to me
Assuming that's Peter Strasser, Great Yarmouth (target of first Zeppelin raids?) Not sure about the Fry's cocoa or Britannia statue, though... will need another of your fascinating commentaries to explain!
p.s. OH if correct.
p.s. OH if correct.
Well done Max Tow. RNAS Air Station South Denes, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Active 1913-19 but used as an airfield up until the 1930s.
Destroyed over The North Sea near Wells Next Sea Norfolk on August 5th 1918 by Major Egbert Cadbury DSC DFC (Pictured previously. Later Managing Director Fry's Chocolate) with Captain Robert Leckie DSO DSC DFC in the rear cockpit of their DH4. They were stationed at Great Yarmouth.
Fregattenkapitan Peter Strasser, Commander of The German Airship Service, perished.
Photographs of the Great Yarmouth Air Station are a bit difficult to find so I hope you will tolerate all these pics:
Photographed in 1947. A far from ideal aerodrome for land planes. A ridge, just discernible, ran down the spine of the field, so most activity took place to the east of it. Another hazard was the fishing nets left out on the field for drying and repair. Note Nelson's Monument in foreground, both a hazard and a landmark (its top sometimes visible in a Sea Fret.) A request from The Navy to Yarmouth Corporation to illuminate the Trident was turned down.
A more recent image looking north. Photo Credit Capt W.H. Farnham.
Sopwith Anzani Sea Plane Great Yarmouth 1913.
Sopwith 80hp SS3 Single Seat Scout Great Yarmouth April 1915
Sopwith 100hp Gnome Float Plane No 880 Great Yarmouth May 1915.
All photographs of Sopwiths credited to Kingston Aviation website.
Finally the first aeroplane to arrive at Great Yarmouth in 1913. Thought to be the Maurice Farman F7 Longhorn Number 69 which saw stirling service with the RNAS at Great Yarmouth.
Photo Credit Norfolk Museums Service (Great Yarmouth Museum).
A reminder OPEN HOUSE.
Destroyed over The North Sea near Wells Next Sea Norfolk on August 5th 1918 by Major Egbert Cadbury DSC DFC (Pictured previously. Later Managing Director Fry's Chocolate) with Captain Robert Leckie DSO DSC DFC in the rear cockpit of their DH4. They were stationed at Great Yarmouth.
Fregattenkapitan Peter Strasser, Commander of The German Airship Service, perished.
Photographs of the Great Yarmouth Air Station are a bit difficult to find so I hope you will tolerate all these pics:
Photographed in 1947. A far from ideal aerodrome for land planes. A ridge, just discernible, ran down the spine of the field, so most activity took place to the east of it. Another hazard was the fishing nets left out on the field for drying and repair. Note Nelson's Monument in foreground, both a hazard and a landmark (its top sometimes visible in a Sea Fret.) A request from The Navy to Yarmouth Corporation to illuminate the Trident was turned down.
A more recent image looking north. Photo Credit Capt W.H. Farnham.
Sopwith Anzani Sea Plane Great Yarmouth 1913.
Sopwith 80hp SS3 Single Seat Scout Great Yarmouth April 1915
Sopwith 100hp Gnome Float Plane No 880 Great Yarmouth May 1915.
All photographs of Sopwiths credited to Kingston Aviation website.
Finally the first aeroplane to arrive at Great Yarmouth in 1913. Thought to be the Maurice Farman F7 Longhorn Number 69 which saw stirling service with the RNAS at Great Yarmouth.
Photo Credit Norfolk Museums Service (Great Yarmouth Museum).
A reminder OPEN HOUSE.
Last edited by OUAQUKGF Ops; 13th Jan 2021 at 12:59.
Well Asturias did a lot of splendid spade work but there were very many 504ks with the reg starting G-EA. That particular aeroplane was photographed at South Denes in 1919. It is from a Postcard. I wondered whether it was G-EAOE of Martin Aviation of Cleethorpes which was written off in 1922. However it seems that this livery was not uncommon and of course one can't read the whole registration. Here is a snap of a similar 504 taken on the Airfield at Cottenham Cambridgeshire. Undated. Probably Pleasure Flying. Best Regards.
Last edited by OUAQUKGF Ops; 13th Jan 2021 at 21:05.
Like there appears to be a larger spacing at the top between the 2nd and 3rd letter.
There also appears to be a larger spacing at the bottom between 3rd and 4th letter.
Then G-EAFE is the most likely candidate.
There also appears to be a larger spacing at the bottom between 3rd and 4th letter.
Then G-EAFE is the most likely candidate.
That was one of the best challenges for a long while. The Fry’s ad had me looking in the Bristol area as well
This one should be easier:
This one should be easier:
Can you post a slightly bigger picture I42?
Are we in N America?
Are we in N America?
That's the largest size I have. We are in North America.
Same mountain, different era, but same airfield of departure as the F-18:
Same mountain, different era, but same airfield of departure as the F-18: