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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).

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  • 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.
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Old 11th May 2020, 17:43
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Did your holiday go near Gap?
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Old 11th May 2020, 18:19
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I'll answer if you tell me where Gap is
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Old 11th May 2020, 19:04
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Gap Tallard Aerodrome en France. Simple guess due to hills and Porters, but perhaps too much grass.
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Old 11th May 2020, 19:28
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Ah non monsieur.
This holiday didn't go past that location, although we did go through France to and from our final destination..
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Old 12th May 2020, 02:01
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All three aircraft look to be Swiss-made. Could it be in that fair country? If it is, I'll get my maps out...
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Old 12th May 2020, 12:52
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How about Bex?
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Old 12th May 2020, 18:12
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jensdad has narrowed down the country, but it isn't Bex.
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Old 12th May 2020, 22:50
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Bex is around 130 miles away by road from the target airfield.
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Old 12th May 2020, 23:11
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The ORIS PC-7 is based (or at least shown on several photos) in Locarno?
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Old 12th May 2020, 23:45
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Yeah, I reckon SLB has it with Locarno. I went past there on a train (or was it a bus?) a few years ago. The vegetation definitely has a south-side-of-the-Alps look about it as well.
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Old 13th May 2020, 04:15
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You'd reckon correctly. It is Locarno. Well done SLB.

We stayed at the Arcadia hotel in Locarno for a night on the way back from Italy. I have never experienced a swimming pool as clean as the one at the hotel. It was fantastic. So much so, that we stopped again the following year on the way to Slovenia, and this time it was the filthiest pool at any hotel we have stayed in, and was such as disappointment.

I've come across a few more holiday airfield images during my sort out of my images over the lockdown.
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Old 13th May 2020, 12:30
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Gee, wasn’t expecting that Locarno would be right as I could not find the hangar/garage building with an A as shown on your photo.

Ok now one that I have never visited by air, but I must have been real close next to It.


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Old 13th May 2020, 13:33
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SLB - on Google Earth go to streetview where it shows the Para Centro Locarno, then go a little south on the main road. Just past the hedge, look right, and there's the building.
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Old 13th May 2020, 20:51
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Walt Disney World Stolport, Florida?
(that large edifice - Contemporary Tower - in background gives it away)
OH if correct. 'ZG

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Old 14th May 2020, 06:29
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Originally Posted by G-ARZG
Walt Disney World Stolport, Florida?
(that large edifice - Contemporary Tower - in background gives it away)
OH if correct. 'ZG
Walt Disney it is

OH called by G-AZRG
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Old 14th May 2020, 07:18
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I have not posted for a while - not sure if this will work



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Old 14th May 2020, 08:44
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That is an older shot of the terminal at Brunei (WBSB). Open house.
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Old 14th May 2020, 08:49
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Originally Posted by chimbu warrior
That is an older shot of the terminal at Brunei (WBSB). Open house.
Yes - it is WBSB
CW - open house
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Old 14th May 2020, 15:19
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Here's one:



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Old 14th May 2020, 16:38
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As that kind of terrain could be almost anywhere, I suppose a hint is in order.
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