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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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Old 19th Sep 2020, 19:58
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Possibly Cairo, but can't find any photographic evidence.
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Old 19th Sep 2020, 20:03
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Wheelus perhaps?
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Old 19th Sep 2020, 20:20
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Not Wheelus or Cairo.
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Old 20th Sep 2020, 14:29
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Couple of views of the accommodation blocks



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Old 20th Sep 2020, 14:37
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Plenty of shelter; Canadian plains?
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Old 20th Sep 2020, 14:42
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Not in Canada - sycamore has previously named locations on the correct continent - Africa.
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Old 20th Sep 2020, 19:24
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The barrack blocks look very similiar to those we had at Khormaksar ?
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Old 20th Sep 2020, 19:35
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I wouldn't be surprised about that as it was an RAF station

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and the Transportation building

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Old 21st Sep 2020, 11:06
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evansb - tried sending you a PM, but it won't go through.
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Old 21st Sep 2020, 15:17
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This should help


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Old 21st Sep 2020, 15:50
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Looks like the Sudan or somewhere similar.
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Old 21st Sep 2020, 16:31
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You'd be correct with that assumption
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Old 21st Sep 2020, 17:11
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Is Abu Sueir sufficiently similar?
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Old 21st Sep 2020, 17:18
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'fraid not Jenks - there is a really big clue in my last image.
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Old 21st Sep 2020, 17:30
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Yes there is. A photograph of the RAF Khartoum cricket pitch helped even before you pointed out that. So, how about Khartoum? I had not realised that it was such an established station.
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Old 21st Sep 2020, 17:55
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Ah ha, you've noticed the clue, but It isn't RAF Khartoum
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Old 21st Sep 2020, 17:58
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Good, I'm glad. Buildings on cricket pitch were not quite right.
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Old 22nd Sep 2020, 11:27
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There aren't that many airfields that might have a warehouse with "Khartoum" over the door.
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Old 22nd Sep 2020, 11:53
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Gordon's tree was very busy in WW2
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It's on the other side of the Nile to the railway station called Gordon's Tree in Khartoum..
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