Langley Park in Perth, Western Australia it is. This was in the days when Australian aircraft still had British registration marks, and this was my cunning plan to throw you all off the scent. :E It obviously didn't work.

This is what it looks like today.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...aerial4_MZ.jpg

I reckon it would get the prize for being the closest airfield to any city's central business district - about a 100m walk.
YHC.

Dora has it I'm sure. Horrie Millers operation.
the current langley park is over the road and to the east of this location.

terry, common mistake.
see the trees at the far left hand end of the park on the photo.
your challenge location was on the other side of those trees.

if that photo is the year I think it was. I was parked 1/3 rd in from the other end in a Cessna 150a.

the next year the insurances and over the top safety wanking caused the event cancellation. there were 6 americans putting their aircraft in containers to ship them over to be a part of the flyin. I just caught them in time to cancel an expensive wasted trip.

This is from my visit to the fabulous (and unique) Langley Park Fly-in:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ps3c3b1e38.gif

When Australia got its own civil registration prefix ("VH"), the existing registrations in the G-AU** range were altered by changing the first three characters to VH-U**.

And now, another former RAAF airfield (this one is easy!):

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...psf06411c2.jpg

I think that is Bundaberg, Queensland where you have cleverly concealed the eastern end of the grass strip by putting a pile of spectators and a bit of tailplane over it.

Does one have to have flown into Langley Park to play this game?
If so, I was there too, up at the end with the faster aircraft.
It was a great fly-in, even if a lot of us took several days flying across Australia to get there.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...6/IMG_0105.JPG
dubbleyew eight:
Yeah. I was told that it wasn't the exact original location, but it was very close by.
In fact, I was also told that the present strip is reclaimed land, so it would have been all water when the original photo was taken.

Yes it is Bundaberg Terry, over to you....

Does anyone know the history of Building 161 at Bundaberg? It's an impressive timber framed hangar with adjoining workshops, the locals are adamant it was "constructed by the Americans". While the structure is similar to other US-built hangars in Queensland that I've seen, the RAAF occupied Bundaberg in early 1941 and started building a plethora of Bellman hangars then, so why would the Americans have built this?

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ps096f20c0.jpg

My attendance at Langley Park was nowhere near as impressive an effort as yours - having jetted in from overseas, I flew a friend's Cessna 180 from Jandaklot (virtually the shortest distance possible). The Danish AF marked Chippie belongs to another friend.

Nothing good at hand right now, so Open House.

Dora-9:
I haven't seen any references to American forces based in Bunderberg, so it seems unlikely that they built your hangar.
However, I have seen references to wood truss hangars made to American designs built by the RAAF at Tocumwal and Werribee during WW2. Maybe this is also the case with your hangar and could explain the American connection in the story.

Is the inside of yours the same as either of these?
http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/projects...rwar/war16.gifSection of a 29. 3 m (96') span hangar at Werribee, Victoria


http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/projects...rwar/war17.gifSection of the 39. 6 m (130') span hangar at Werribee, Victoria

Timber Building in Australia

Terry Dactil has kindly posted OH, and it's been a while since I strolled this particular PPRuNe boardwalk, so I'd thought I may suggest the next offering:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...psaa647310.jpg

Brodhead, Wisconsin

C2j

Correct, C2j.

Some very interesting toys to be seen in the hangars on the left.

YHC

Russ.

Defeatring Google Image is easy when you use your own pictures. Now for something completely different.

C2j

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps8b1e51f0.jpg

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...psf1aef0e3.jpg

Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport ?

• The Ba146 with the eagle on the tail is PK-OSP of Metro TV in Indonesia.
• The F-28s painted with tropical flowers are Garuda Citylink aircraft.
• The smoke reducing visibility is from the "burn the forest" season which occurs every year in Indonesia, so I reckon it has to be somewhere in Indonesia.
• The twin tailed aircraft with droopy noses could be Su-27 or Su-30, and the Indonesian airforce operate both those types as well as F-16s
• Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport is both civil and miliatary, and that looks like the old tower which was painted red and white at varios times.

I couldn't find the flagpoles, though :{

Not WAAA.

C2j

Didn't realize that the inability to "google search" was such an impediment to the game. LOL !!

I've looked and I don't have any "aerials" of the airport from my time flying out of there. International airport / serves capital / joint GA and military.

C2j

Halim Perdanakusuma International

OH if correct.

That could be it, as it ticks all the boxes for
I gave it a miss because all the control tower photos I could find did not match colour or pattern, or have flagpoles nearby.
Maybe it was painted recently.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ol%20tower.JPG
I had been searching all the Garuda Citylink destination airports on google earth looking for a control tower match.
Only had 18 still to go :{
Bit of a waste of time really, when a major clue is not valid.

WIIH - Bandar Udara Halim Perdanakusuma is correct. Pictures taken in April/May 2005. There was a retirement ceremony going on for the (former) head of the Air Force (TNI-AU). C-130's, F-5's, Hawks, F-16's and SU-30's all participated in the fly overs with about 2.5 miles visibility in smoke/haze.

Open House has been declaired.

C2j

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...pse7065b24.jpg

Great challenge, C2j.

I completely discounted Halim in my search, because during my time in Jakarta, I never saw any military jets. The rumour was that the Army distrusted the Air Force so much that they wouldn't allow attack aircraft to be based within range of Jakarta!

Practically CAVOK in Jakarta ;)

Well, as no one else has a challenge, let's go somewhere else!
C2j

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...psf77213af.jpg

Not much of a dewpoint spread on that day!

Somewhere in Eastern Europe or the Balkans?

Quite some distance from the Balkans. A suprisingly active airport for the regular poor weather. Lack of services makes it an "in-and-out" destination for all but the saviours.

C2j

solomons or PNG

Technically, neither.

C2j

Wamena WAJW.

Chimbu Warrior is correct. Wamina, Indonesia. The only aircraft bases there (2005) was a Cessna 206 supporting missionary work.

C2j

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps20bcea6a.jpg

It was a busy day at Wamina with military and civilian flights.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps40269432.jpg
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...psfde6b207.jpg
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...pse31e5158.jpg

Trigana Air Service was the major player utilizing 5 different types. Both the Caribou and Twin Otter have since been written off (unfortunately the DHC-6 with a major loss of life). Can't say for the ATY and F-27.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps1e08a919.jpg
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps43ef93b3.jpg
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps2ccc10d8.jpg

But, you say, that is only 4! Well, I was the fifth, and only jet (they hadn't yet begun to run 737's off the runway) and was operating under Trigana's AOC.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps7b95f62d.jpg


By the way... how does one find "What Aerodrome Mk I & II"?

I started Mk I in 2007 acting on a suggestion from evansb (I think). The first mystery aerodrome picture was of the original terminal at Washington National Airport, KDCA. I can't find a link, even with that knowledge,

seacue

Are we open house?

seacue

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...aerodrome.html

Dave

I am assuming OH.
I don't think this has been done before, can't find the list.
http://i353.photobucket.com/albums/r...8/PICT3623.jpg

Good picture. I remember landing here some years back and wondering how on earth anyone had managed to put s chimney there!

I'll hang fire and see if anyone else gets it.

Turkey perhaps..?

Jenkins is correct. Sde Dov, Tel Aviv.
Used to stay in the Sheraton hotel just off the edge of the picture, bottom right.

First time I have recognized one the moment I saw it, was their a couple of weeks ago and had a great time

Where can I find Mel's list of airfields, etc.?

dixi188

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...est-lists.html

Dave

Seems like it is an open house so here is one to get the ball rolling again.

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/1381/81q8.jpg

That wouldn't be, by any chance, Roundshaw Housing Estate in the background would it?

No and No I am sorry to say.

Squires Gate?

Squires Gate Blackpool it is, well done.

The photo was taken around 1969 give or take a year or two. What is the aircraft type and what happened to this particular aircraft? I seem to remember that the aircraft might have been abandoned. Also a close look at the tail seems to show it is detached from the rest of the aircraft.