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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.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:17
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Not Chile either.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:18
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Well, I knew a chap who ferried a lot of Twotters to Peru...
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:22
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Did he, now...
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:24
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The Peruvian Air Force has 15 of them.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:26
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Indeed, dook, but where?
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:28
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The "feeder channel" isn't always just a feeble creek!
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:30
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I have 11 bases but none of them appear to have a runway in that direction.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:32
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The runway is no longer used commercially.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:42
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It certainly looks that way too.

I'm searching Peruvian air force bases.

Is this a waste of time ?
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:47
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Not a waste of time at all. The runway was deactivated for commercial purposes in the seventies, leaving only the air force base. Now, if you've found 11 bases, which of them might be near rivers that rise and fall?
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:50
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I think it might be home to Escuadron de Transporte 421.

Iquitos ?
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 10:55
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Getting agonizingly close, dook, but the name of the game is "Which Aerodrome Mk III”
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 11:01
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Indeed, Iquitos. The floatplane ramp leads into a lake called Morona Cocha. In recent years the Amazon at Iquitos has been breaking its own records for high and low water so the base can become inaccessible during the dry season.
Your stick, dook.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 11:01
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Story of my life.
Get close and then someone else gets in while I'm looking.

edit: crossed posts.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 11:14
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Many thanks broadreach.

Contrary to the views of one or two people on this thread, I do not consider that it belongs to me.

Accordingly, OH.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 11:26
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...FAP Base Area Grupo 42..........OH if correct......
AHH,too late....
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 12:13
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Completely off topic but Iquitos would have been just the place for the Chapecoense football team 146 to refuel.
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Old 10th Feb 2019, 12:40
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Broadreach,

From internet there are 2 Airports in Iquitos

Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta International Airport

And

Antiguo Aeroporto Iquitos
Old Iquitos airport
(which you challenged)

from Wiki on the Peruvian Airforce:

Air Wing Nº 4

  • Air Group Nº 42 – headquarters: Iquitos
    • Air Squadron 421 (operating DHC-6 and Y-12)
    • Air Squadron 422 (operating PC-6)
  • Santa Clara Air Base – headquarters: Iquitos

Are only the (float equipped) Twin Otters based on the old airport?
Is the old Iquitos airport then the same as Santa Clara?


SLB
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This should be interesting...…………….
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SLB, yes, the base is also called Santa Clara, just to confuse the opposition! The old airport itself isn't called that, though, and I can't remember what it was called other than "Iquitos". I lived there during several stages of my life and recall teaching my little brother to ride a bike on the runway - our house was at the other end - and being chased off numerous times. There were no fences and the runway was lined with huts and light industry. It was sometimes quite scary. A 1-11 swerved to avoid a cow or pig crossing it and clipped a mound of runway rubble, which thrust one of the main gears up, jamming the flap but succeeding in taking off. Landed later at Tarapoto and was repaired. One I was on did hit a pig with the nosegear, and aborted. Awful mess.
C'mon, enough of this, dook declared Open House!
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