You're right - US Navy Florida.

Not East Coast - don't know about Curtiss - Florida's a big state - with lotsa water. - is it fresh or salty ? LFH

Well, I thought it was Pensacola.

LM, You thunk right. ;)

I guess it's a moot point whether Pensacola is on the East or South Coast.

NAS Pensacola 1914 - 99 years old!

Several Curtiss Model Fs and two Model Es. One of those is probably the first USN aircraft, serial A1.

.........:)

Pensacola it is - Well done. Apparently 1916. On what I believe is generally referred to as "the Gulf Coast."

I42 - A1 ? Is that a knowledgeable presumption or are you able to say which one is so marked ? If the latter, did you get it from another pic or from sharpening this one ?

I suspect the view below (1918) is in the opposite direction but possibly taken from around the same spot.

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1361289124
Lightning Mate has control.

LFH,

I missed a hyphen. See here:
Curtiss Model E - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ps103c4306.png

Perhaps the second aircraft in your picture?

I've just found this marvellous video of a replica flying:

From what I've read and looking at the pictures, the original A-1 was " a headless E" in that it didn't have the canard foreplane, unlike the replica.

Thankyou Ifor.

Judging by the dates in your reference, the date of 1916 for my challenge might arguably be a bit off the mark. Saving the video for later. LFH

Open House again I'm afraid. :uhoh:

Open House? Not that I think this will last long:-
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ps2c9d6abd.jpg

Mel,

I saw this one the other day and thought, that would be a good one for What Aerodrome, but I can't remember the name!

Somewhere in the mid-west, judging by the section-line roads. Naval, I think.

I42 not MidWest more westerly than that I would say and was not a Naval air Field. At the time the photograph was taken it was an Army Air Field.

There's an awful lot of aircraft parked up - best guess sofar is Kingman Arizona, but I'm not convinced. LFH

Not Kingman Arizona LFH. This one was further North and Westward.

Morning Mel.

Might it be Oregon?

Morning David. Not Oregon. This airfield is a bit further north.

Can only be Washington then.

I have open in front of me a database of all WW2 army air bases and nothing has come up for Washington.

Going back for a further look....

Is it Walla Walla ?

It is in Washington State but not Walla Walla. The airfield has a different name to the one it had when the photograph was taken.

I see the "sticky" listing What cockpit, which Aerodrome etc has been removed.