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Congratulations Flap40!

It is indeed Lyon-Satolas or more precisely Lyon-Saint-Exupéry. The photo was showing the still visible runway of ALG Y-34 which is now like properly indicated by Flap40 lying under other constructions and rubble in the SW corner of the airport footprint.
The Y-34 airfield saw use in Sept 1944 with the F5 Lightning of the 23rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron and the F6 Mustang of the 111th Reconnaissance Squadron.

You have the helm Flap40!

Thanks. By pure coincidence, I flew out of there on Wednesday.

Open House.

Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WAD121221.jpg

How about Canada ? One of those many WWII BCATP training fields ? LFH

It is in Canada, but not a BCATP field. Those are Canadian-made Curtiss Jennys.
(Actually Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. JN-4 Canucks).

Camp Borden Ontario, Canada, {North of Toronto to save you looking} still in use, some of the hangers are now designated heritage buildings, if correct OH.

Not Borden, but same type of hangars.

OK, after some delving using that info how about the now defunct Leaside airfield also in Toronto?

Yes, it is Leaside, Toronto, Ontario. :ok: Your turn.

Guessing Beauvais with the railway line.

Sorry chevvron, not Beauvais

Well duckbutt, looks like everyone's asleep apart from us; I'm sitting in the tower with only a couple of aircraft flying.

Looks like you're right chevvron. Here's another pic from the same location for you to ponder:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ler/Puzz85.jpg

Zeebrugge, Belgium ?

I'm no good at this era but the markings on the little flying boat look Italian, so Taranto?

It looks very cold in that first photo, so how about St. Petersberg?

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Evansb has it, it's the German WW1 seaplane base on the mole at Zeebrugge.

Quote:

Following the occupation of the Belgian coast, a seaplane base was established at Zeebrugge in December 1914. Aircraft were kept in the railway station hall at the end of the Mole, fully assembled on specially constructed flat railway cars which carried tools, fabric, dope, etc for minor repairs, as well as supplies of water, fuel and oil. Locomotives were kept with steam up and were always available to pull the trains out on to the Mole and up to the cranes used to lift and lower the seaplanes to the water. In this early 1915 scene no national insignia are displayed on the upper wing surfaces of these Friedrichshafen FF29 seaplanes or the Oertz flying-boat numbered 46, but wing undersurfaces were marked spanwise with the straight-sided cross, as seen on the Oertz's rudder.

The first pic shows a Bleriot landing on the mole. This machine was captured from the Belgian forces and used for a while by the Germans. It's engine was later transplanted into a Fokker aircraft.

Over to what I suspect is a slightly nippy Lethbridge!

Yes t'was cold last few nights, -24C, but presently have light Chinook winds giving rise to a balmy -3C. (Temp will change more degrees here in 12-hours than any point in Great Britain in 365 days). Here is the next mystery aerodrome:

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WAD121228.jpg