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Bloody hell, I am getting lucky with these random guesses. Maybe I should start playing the lottery.
At which aerodrome is this beauty? As with the Pakistan Air Force Hercules at Pisa in my last challenge, this aircraft is a long way from where it was born.

IL-28 in Cuba somewhere!

Good try, oldpax, but I'm afraid the answers are No and No. :)
Apologies for the blurred photo btw. I took it from a taxying aircraft.

oldpax,

jensdad is being sneaky. It's in Europe, but still a long way from home.

A Harbin H-5 at Tirana International Airport

Absolutely right, I42. Over to you!

Thanks.

Like oldpax, I assumed it was an Il-28 and was looking in Indonesia, Africa and the Americas. However, the buildings looked European and after I discovered that the Il-28 had a Chinese clone, Albania was the obvious place to start looking.

Standby while I load my next challenge.

Number Six in a Series of Hundreds(?), well actually Tens - Airfields I Have Landed At:

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...ps94pg0kjt.jpg

If it wasn't for the aerodrome beacon and the passengers sign, it could be mistaken for a bowls club.

Doesn't look Australian or Canadian - I'd say sea-side UK and I'd bet the interior looks like Shoreham...... but for soem reason I have a feeling the architecture is similar to New Zealand buildings - Napier/Hastings has loads like that

But it has to be a pretty big town to afford something that big - so we're thinking of Wellington orChristchurch type places

Can't be Manchester, it's not raining.

Well it 's somewhere where it DOES rain a fair bit - Vancouver Airport I think?

Harry wins again. The earliest incarnation of what is now Vancouver International Airport CYVR.

Here's a photo taken from the roof of the terminal (grand opening?):
http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...psmv2aow4w.jpg

What is that tri-motor biplane?

and an aerial view:
http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...pslkvinxah.jpg
The hangars and the distinctively shaped roads are still there, but the terminal is long gone, replaced by a parking lot. Vandals!


Here's a later aerial view, possible wartime:
http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...psqowgutjy.jpg

The small channel on the Fraser River no longer exists and the two runways are also gone, but the remnants are visible on GE. The present day airport covers nearly all of the fields in the background. Many years ago, I did my floatplane rating here.

Over to you, Harry.

http://www.pprune.org/members/326184...1-98194331.jpg

twas Dave's joke that sent me in the right directon....................

Anyway given recent posts I guess this will last about 30 minutes.......

Looks like a Boeing 80:

http://www.aerofiles.com/boe-80a1.jpg

Thanks Dave.

I hadn't heard of that one.

not much clearance bewtween the props and the fuselage!!!

The Seattle Air Museum has a fine example.

The only example I believe........

It's lasted more than 30 minutes :ok:

I'd hazard a guess at southern European as the roofs are fairly flat.

People are getting slow......

The taxiway is a bit of a help ... if you look closely!

Well, it's a race circuit of some sort.