Forres is nearby, but is it the ex RAF base called Mundole ?

Mmm, it seems it is both ... the grass area is the former RAF Forres, whilst the concrete strip was built as a civilian enterprise called Mundole some time thereafter.

I concede I wasn't first with the answer :ok:

Both sort of correct but PPRuNe Radar is most precise. The Mundole strip was built on part of the site of RAF Forres for use of various aircraft owned by the United Biscuits (mcVities) company or its pilot-chairman Sir Hector (now Lord) Laing who had property at nearby Dunphail. The hangar in its final form housed a Beech 200. Image from a privately published history of UB corporate Aviation published in the 1980's by its then chief pilot. With the retirement of Lord Laing shortly after, the whole operation was closed down by new management ...........but I believe at least one son was also a pilot so something may survive at Mundole.

Over to PPRuNe radar

Updated Which Aerodrome List 02 April 2009
 

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Mel

Nothing to hand at my current location.

Open house, keep up the good work folks, this is a great thread !!

PPRuNe Radar has cleared us to leave the hold and divert to here:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../WAD090325.jpg

An interesting formation over an airport with an interesting recent history. And if you think it's a pair, look again.

Scott AFB near St. Louis. If correct, open house.

I'm pretty sure I'm right, if you look behind the Lear 35 in that lose formation where the closed runway ends, is where I used to park the 727s I flew into there, next to the fire station.

That didn't last long, but I suppose if anyone was to guess it quickly, it would have been you con-pilot :ok:

Interesting recent history on Wikipedia
Scott Air Force Base - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Open House

How about this?
http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/q...bird/th_wo.jpg

Everything looks too new. A film set.

Yes - a re-enactment but at a genuine wartime site. (Sorry about picture size)

Twinwood Airfield ? WAG BTW

Not Twinwood. As all will have most likely guessed it is an English field used by US bomber or fighter group.

re OUAS
 

Old Bald Pilot: I just sent you a PM.

Laurence

Thorpe Abbotts perhaps.............

When MidAmerica St. Louis Airport opened we moved operations from Scott to to MidAmerica. Talk about a ghost town (airport), that place was dead. I walked over the terminal a few times. It was rather sad really, all these airline counters that were empty, rental car counters only one of which was occupied, a fully equipped restaurant standing empty and unused. All of which were brand new and never used.

There is an extremely long taxiway that connects MidAmerica to Scott, I think it is faster to fly from Scott to MidAmerica than to taxi.

I have not been there for over ten years, but from what I've heard, not much has changed.

This particular bomb group did not fly out of Thorpe Abbots. The site was, latterly, a German PoW camp.

It could be from Memphis Belle in which case the airfield in the flying scenes was RAF Binbrook.

S'land and JENKINS have it but with S'land touching down first! Debach's restored watch office is pictured. Home of squadrons 860 - 863, 493rd USAAF bomb group. S'land has control.

Thanks flyingwing, it was the POW clue that did it. Here is the next challenge.

http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p...g?t=1238930788

That looks like a pre-oil era Scatsta, in Shetland, UK, from the east. Certainly looks barren enough. If so, is the photo of WW2 vintage?

Well done Little Cloud, it is indeed what is now Scatsta Airport on Shetland. The photograph is from the admirable Shetland Museum photo archive and is, I believe, of WWII vintage.
First developed as RAF Scatsta in 1940 as a fighter base and able to support Coastal Command Flying Boat operations. It was the most northerly base in the British Isles. Construction started on the two runways in Spring 1940. In November 1944 Scatsta was used as a support base and diversion point for Lancasters from 617 squadron, led by Wing Commander J. B. Tait, on "Operation Catechism", which bombed and sank the Tirpitz near Håkøy Island, Tromsø. After WWII the aerodrome lay dormant until 1978 when it opened as a civil airport.
According to Wickipedia Scatsta is “the fifth largest airport in Scotland, ranked by international passengers“. The airport service area has no bar (the nearest is some 3 miles away), and no taxi or bus service.
You have control.

Thanks S'land. I've nothing to hand, so Open House.

Where's this?

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...AF090406-1.jpg

Here's the same airport about ten years later.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../WAF090407.jpg

Deline,Great Bear Lake, Canada?

STS,

Interesting choice and I can see why you might think that, but no. This place only sees ice in drinks.

Another four years have passed. This airport is a lot bigger and a lot busier now.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../WAF090408.jpg

That looks a lot like the development of Washington Reagan (DGA). There's a similar series in the old lounge /museum.

ICT_SLB

Right country, wrong airport. ;)

Washington National Airport (which had Ronald Reagan pre-pended nearly 50 years after coming into service) was full-blown runway-wise the day it opened in 1941.

It has lost the short east-west runway since then. That runway was too short for large planes and planes skimmed over St Elizabeth's (mental) Hospital on the hill across the Potomac.
No comments please about DHS moving to the former mental hospital site.

Boston Logan Airport?

Nashville?

Not Washington, Boston or Nashville. Go west and south.

This next clue should be a giveaway.

Two years later and one existing runway has been paralled and new "runways" have been dredged for flying boats.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../WAF090409.jpg

Las Vegas, McCarran ?

No, not Nevada. If it was Las Vegas, I doubt there is enough water for the "runways" ;)

San Francisco International

Not SFO. This airport is on an island.

Hickam then?

Islands ? Flying Boats ? Honolulu ?