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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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Not Oostende...
Actually Flap40 has it right...The picture is a bit NW up and it is indeed Le Havre Octeville airfield in 1945, with a US logistic camp installed there.
One can see the initial Le Havre -and former- Bléville airfield, on the left of the photo, with the old hangars in the bottom left and the taxiway linking them to the new airfield.
These hangars were used by the Germans as Werkhallen as there were none on the new airfield, its construction having started just before war, Bléville having been deemed too small for the new aircraft generations.
Flap 40 has the helm!
JV
Actually Flap40 has it right...The picture is a bit NW up and it is indeed Le Havre Octeville airfield in 1945, with a US logistic camp installed there.
One can see the initial Le Havre -and former- Bléville airfield, on the left of the photo, with the old hangars in the bottom left and the taxiway linking them to the new airfield.
These hangars were used by the Germans as Werkhallen as there were none on the new airfield, its construction having started just before war, Bléville having been deemed too small for the new aircraft generations.
Flap 40 has the helm!
JV
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Many thanks. There seems to have been a lot of ordinance delivered to the left side of that photo!
Here is a picture that I took last week. The two hangars are original even if the doors and that brick building are not. Something else used to stand in the gap between the two hangars.
I believe we have had this airfield before but with a much older photo.
Here is a picture that I took last week. The two hangars are original even if the doors and that brick building are not. Something else used to stand in the gap between the two hangars.
I believe we have had this airfield before but with a much older photo.
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Neither of those. The airfield has not been active for many years.
This is what was the airside of the hangars. Although the doors have been replaced over the years according to Google earth the roofs still look original.
This is what was the airside of the hangars. Although the doors have been replaced over the years according to Google earth the roofs still look original.
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It is Grangemouth.
If you look on Google Earth you will see that the pattern of skylights still exists i the roof of the hangars. The bit that is missing from my picture is the terminal building and control tower which burnt down in 1952.
If you look on Google Earth you will see that the pattern of skylights still exists i the roof of the hangars. The bit that is missing from my picture is the terminal building and control tower which burnt down in 1952.
Which aerodrome is this? The operator of this hangar and these aeroplanes was obliged to cease operations due to security concerns by the state, but some years after the 911 attacks. Very nostalgic for many.
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