As it's open house here's one to keep things rolling.

http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/dromepic.jpg

A huge ramp; very geometric layout. A superpower is my guess, but current or former?

I'll go former - Russian?

Sorry, not Russian.

Former Walker U.S. Army Airfield, near Victoria, Kansas.

evansb has it! Yes - not to be confused with the other Walker AAF base in Virginia (previously set). The Kansas base was used for B29 training amongst other things. Obviously an encyclopaedic knowledge of the NA cotinent where he lives! You have control sir.

Thanks! My 1965 Jet Navigation Chart also shows Walker listed as "Victoria-Pratt" airport. Here is the next "Which Aerodrome?"

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WAD090304.jpg

An RCAF station and a visiting RAF Hastings, looks great, no idea where but who cares.

Would say the pic was taken late forties. My guess RCAF Greenwood.

Sorry, not RCAF Greenwood. It is indeed a visiting RAF HP Hastings. OTRW, Krakatoa is quite brilliant.

Looks to me like Keflavik but don't know why...

Sorry, not in Iceland. Too far east. Krakatoa's suggestion was also too far east. Here is a photo taken in 1949 from the control tower of the mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...WAD090304A.jpg

Bag-Town,er Bagotville,,,?

Brian,

Is that three Black Widows and a Chinook? ;)

Sorry, not Bagotville, Quebec. Still too far east. Bagotville has been done before, (by me actually, with a fly-by photo of Canadian built Hurricanes..., yet another superfluity).

Yes, India Four Two, they are Northrop F(P)-61 Black Widows. Perhaps a strong nor-wester is pushing them, but that would not be a true Chinook wind, would it? The hills visible in the distance have been described as peaceful.

Here is another clue:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...WAD090304B.jpg

Edmonton, Alberta?

A DH Sea Hornet was there for cold weather testing with the RCAF in the late 1940s, I understand?

I was quite distracted by the photo of the Sea Hornet (aaaah - de Havilland) and I'm not sure about your clue, but it looks like it might be Ft. St. John, BC (in the "Peace River Country").

India Four Two is correct:ok: Fort Saint John, British Columbia, Canada. (CYXJ). The airfield, big enough to accomodate four-engined bombers, was built near the Alaska Highway, and was part of the Northwest Staging Route during WW.II. For those who don't know, the route provided aerodromes for military aircraft ferried from the U.S. to Russia during WW.II. Simon has control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...StJohnBC01.jpg

This won't last long, but it is a nice picture:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ia42/17702.jpg

Bagotville?

Not Bagotville.

Hmmm . . .
 

Is it in a province or teritory adjacent to the last one (CYXJ)?

Yellowknife?

grizzled,

Yes and it's also in the CY-- series, but you probably guessed that. ;)

brakedwell,

Not Yellowknife, but closer than Bagotville.

CY??
 

Hmmm. . . too many trees for most places in NWT (and northern AB); Too sparsely settled to be Whitehorse; too flat for most places in the Yukon or nothern BC; the twotters and the beech (and the windsock) tell me it's not a military base . . . .

Fort Smith?

Not Fort Smith, but you are getting closer. ;)

A surprising number of trees, considering its location.

Same Place - Different Season
 

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/india42/ap2.jpg

Summer here can actually be quite hot. The drawback is the mosquitoes.

CFB Inuvik.

Open house if correct.

TCF

Chitterne Flyer,

I am sure that you are correct, but has anyone else noticed that the '03' runway in that second picture is '06' on Google Earth?

That's what comes of being located near a shifting magnetic North Pole; I bet the runway painters there learned their trade on the Forth Bridge!:ok:

TCF, you are correct, but there is no longer a CFB at Inuvik - it was closed in the 80s. However Inuvik Airport is used as a forward operating base for Hornets ( a mere 1058 nm from Cold Lake!).

Inuvik was a completely new town and airport, built in 1954 after the nearby community of Aklavik was devastated by floods.

It is interesting that apart from the big grey object in the winter photo, the photo could have been taken any time in the past 25 years or so - two Twin Otters and a King Air.

grizzled was put off by the trees in the background, but that area is down near the river level in the Mackenzie Delta and has a large number of trees, even though it is 68 degrees north. You can see from the aerial photo that there are not many trees on the tundra.

D120A's comment surprised me. I had always assumed that Inuvik was in the Northern Domestic Airspace where tracks and runway headings are True, but a quick check of the AIM (RAC – 2.0 AIRSPACE – REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES) shows that Inuvik is officially in Southern Domestic Airspace, and so he is right - the runway number painters will be called out quite frequently. The variation is currently changing by half a degree per year!

So as TCF said, Open House.

Somewhere a bit warmer!


http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...mes/Hickam.jpg

Ah, the lovely Britannia!

Naples.

Decimomannu, Sardinia

D120A and Tempsford, I can see your logic, but it is not in Italy.

Is it in Malaysia?

Afraid not, wrong hemisphere.

Marville, France?

Afraid not. Forget Europe and think islands.

Hickam AFB

Well done, it is Hickham. Your turn.

I was luck enough to go there last year on one of the queens 4 engined trucks. However thats digressing. I have no photos to post yet so its open house.