Can we eliminate it being in New Zealand?
Not many parallel runways there in that direction.
Thought it might have been Nelson, but it's not. :{

Monterey Regional, CA (KMRY).

Open House again, I'm afraid.

Dave is correct.

Open house.

The when is 4th September 1917, but where is it?
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Good first attempt, but this isn't Thetford.

Well done Jenkins, the Great Government Aerodrome at Narborough it is - at the time the largest Aerodrome in the UK - right next door to present day RAF Marham.
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Open House - or do you have an image to share with us?

TS - OK I got rid of the numbers, I'll have to remove all the text next time :ok:

Open House it is

Here's one! It's the same airfield; the photos virtually touch (i.e. the single runway is immediately north of the two parallel strips, the taxiway in the top LH of the second image is the same one leading off on the lower LH of the first image). I'm having all sorts of issues posting images currently; ideally I would have one above the other (sorry!):

http://www.pprune.org/images/attach/jpg.gifhttp://www.pprune.org/images/attach/jpg.gif

Japanese ?

Like this?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ml35a1lua...nways.JPG?dl=1

It looks jungly. New Guinea perhaps?

Thanks Terry, just like that. Not Japanese, and not New Guinea either...

Alright.
The taxiway & revetment layout reminds me of some of the satellite airfields around Townsville in WW2.
Are we in Australia, then?

Northern Russia/USSR ?

that looks tropical to me - but THREE runways - all with loads of dispersal areas hidden in the woods?

Only the US is normally that ... open handed ............. and two parallel.... quite a modern idea

Okinawa??

more thoughts - someone expected to be bombed - 3 runways and all that dispersal and no buildings........ they must have been important - starts me towards Biafra in the late '60's................

Sorry for the belated reply, it's in Australia but not a Townsville (Garbutt) satellite (I can already hear Terry whirring into action!).

Right. Let's go to far North Queensland as if we are on the way to New Guinea.
Found some text about 'Iron Range Airfield' That figures. Dora-9 likes showing us runways that have disappeared. :ok:
Here it is today:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbbe9ru6z9...r%203.JPG?dl=1
If you squint hard enough you can just see remnants of the two parallel runways.
Fortunately, some of the roads and the bends in the river match those in the original photos, so I will claim the answer to be Iron Range Airfield / Lockhart River Airport (or to be pedantic - Claude 1, Claude 2 and Gordon bomber strip.
OPEN HOUSE if correct.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jz107viona...r%201.JPG?dl=1

Well done Terry - it is indeed Iron Range!

Heathrow Harry - someone certainly did "expect to get bombed"! Other than Horn Island and Higgins, this was the closest mainland airfield to New Guinea.

The site was selected because of its proximity to the nearby deep water pier at Portland Roads, and construction by the US Army's 46th Engineer Regiment commenced in April 1942. It was a very active base until mid-1944, being used by the at various times by the USAAF's 26th BG (B-26 Marauders), 43rd BG (B-17 Fortress) and 90th BG (B-24 Liberators).

The northern runway was known as GORDON, while the SW runway was OLD CLAUDIE and the parallel more easterly runway NEW CLAUDIE.

The separated runway configuration was not that unusual for the period. Other examples that come to mind are Mareeba (another very active US base), Carpentaria Downs, Antill Plains, Woodstock, Fanning, Macrossan, Condamine, Brymaroo and Strathpine. The parallel runaway arrangement was unusual though, probably because Old Claudie was found to be flood-prone, while New Claudie was never fully completed.

Gordon is still in use as Iron Range Airport (sometimes called Lockhart River), while nature has totally enveloped the Claudie strips. Old Claude (which was bituminized) and some of the taxiways remain very (and I mean very) faintly visible as the photos show.

Over to you, Terry....

Nothing to hand just now and I need to recover from that last challenge. :)
It's open house.

I've created an update version of Mel's list as the original doesn't seem to be available. I had downloaded a copy from three years ago and have just spent an enjoyable afternoon going through from where it left off updating it.

You should be able to view it by clicking here

I've slightly changed the format as the Page & Post entries were out step as some people have deleted their posts so changing the order. Made it difficult in a couple of places where the post with the answer on was deleted and the OP just said "Correct, your turn".