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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 7th Feb 2021, 07:34
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Originally Posted by ea200
As soon as I saw your latest I thought I'd seen it somewhere. Pretty sure it's Page, AZ.
Indeed Page Arizona.
Take it away EA200, you have control.
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Old 7th Feb 2021, 10:50
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Thanks Bear. Spent a bit of time around there. Great scenery.

How about this one?



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Old 7th Feb 2021, 18:08
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Complete stab in de the dark really, but the first place I thought was, was Split.
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Old 7th Feb 2021, 22:49
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Dubrovnik Cilipi LDDU. DBV
Open House if correct
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Old 8th Feb 2021, 05:49
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My mountain experience is limited to INN & CMF, but the latter does have a distinctive control tower which stays white even after the winter snows, so perhaps Chambery if there's a lake at the end?

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Old 8th Feb 2021, 08:28
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Berne/Belp?
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Old 8th Feb 2021, 14:43
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Some good guesses there but Max Tow has it with Chambery. I was surprised we haven't had it before but it doesn't appear on the list. There is indeed a lake at the far end. The instrument approach is over the lake. Pretty quiet in summer but very busy in the ski season.

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Old 8th Feb 2021, 15:58
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We have had it before. I posted it about 5 years ago.
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Old 8th Feb 2021, 20:54
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Try this - an historic airfield. The aircraft type is a good start



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Old 9th Feb 2021, 06:52
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Efrica????
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Old 9th Feb 2021, 07:19
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I'd suggest that the scenery is far too lush for those bullet holes to have been inflicted in the back and forth of the N.Africa campaign.....
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Old 9th Feb 2021, 08:29
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Is that a CAC Boomerang?
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Old 9th Feb 2021, 08:37
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No, afraid not. Another photo might help as the day is drawing on in Oz


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Old 9th Feb 2021, 10:14
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Burma Campaign ?
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Old 9th Feb 2021, 10:36
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Malaysia...?
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Old 9th Feb 2021, 10:49
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Yes, one of the above is correct.. The aircraft type will lead you there. If not, here's a bit of the runway which found a new home and the countryside a few miles North - you'll not get the aerial of the runway just yet.
Bed time in Oz now so answer on my desk by the morning please!




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Old 9th Feb 2021, 13:21
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Curtiss P-75 Mohawk,possibly 5 or 155 Sdn....?
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Old 9th Feb 2021, 13:45
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East Malaysia perhaps?

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Old 9th Feb 2021, 16:45
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Well, Changi had a PSP runway post Japanese occupation, which was still a taxiway until the development of the airport when the PSP was removed, and Kallang was the only airfield still operating till the surrender (and also had PSP). Go north from both and you get the causeway/Jahore River and various islands (and at the time Singapore was part of Malaya).
So - Kallang!.
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Doubt that's Singapore - no shopping centres in sight and that river bends and twists in a most un-Singaporean, indisciplined manner
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