Toledo, Ohio ?

Not Toledo. Airport built in 1929 and had airline service from 1932 to 1947. Ironically, the biggest clue to the airports identity is in the picture.

C2j

Bowman Field, Kentucky?

OH if correct as off to Barcelona for the weekend.

Dave

Is the biggest clue the small airplanes?

Lock Haven?

Not Bowman or Lock Haven.

C2j

Considering those aircrafts are L4s, and many of them at that, I am thinking about a WWII observer and liaison pilot training field...were they any specialised in this area of training?

Wild stab - Bartow air base, FL?

Or perhaps neaby Gilbert Field?

That'll be getting up LM's nose ----

Sorry for the slow reply - full day here.

The aircraft are NOT L4's. The activity is not liason pilot training. The field is neither Bartow or Gilbert.

The hangar/terminal building from which the picture was taken was erected by a famous aviation conglomerate that is still in business today. Eastern Airlines was an early regular at the field.

C2j

That looks like a beach to me. Is that the clue?

Bethune Point, Daytona Beach?

Not Rentschler and not at the beach. What kind of airplanes are they?

C2j

If they are not L4 they have to be J3 (I wonder how could we guess with the cockpits all covered in tarpaulins...You would have to see the tarpaulin is too short to cover the extended fuselage plexi of a L4 cockpit?).

Then it has to be related to the CPTP/WTS program, and many were the airfields with CPTP/WTS schools...

Could it be Rhode Island?

Would the mast have any connection with radar antennas. During W2 Piper Aircraft's main contribution to the war effort was the construction of steel masts for radar antennas at Vero Beach.
Vero Beach Municipal Airport.

Piper had no connection to Vero Beach until the 1960's.

WTS flight school. The BIG clue is the name of the planes. Airport is still active, but the original 3 runways have been replaced by a single runway. Original hangar is still standing.

C2j

I see now, that's cryptic even by my standards. Jim Hamilton LB Owens. OH if correct please.

Yes, The Jim Hamilton is a fairly recent addition to the official name of Owens Field KCUB in Columbia, SC. The aircraft - Piper J3 Cubs - are part of Hawthorn Aviations WTS program in conjunction with the University of South Carolina.

The hangar that the picture was taken from was built by the Curtiss-Wright Company.

http://www.rcgov.us/departments/coun...vationPlan.pdf

C2j

Open House has been declared.

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Great challenge C2j. Thanks.

My pleasure. :)

C2j

Here's the next challenge

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