Jenkins has got it - Atkinson Field, British Guyana it is.

No idea what the vehicle is, but it looks suspiciously like it has right-hand drive. Was this the clue that you had seen?
https://o4eena.bl3301.livefilestore....&cropmode=none

Couple of other images to share while we are at this airfield
https://nua5bw.bl3301.livefilestore....&cropmode=none


https://0ymita.bl3301.livefilestore....&cropmode=none

Somewhere a little cooler................... one of those fields you stumble over and wonder why it isn't better known.....

https://www.pprune.org/members/32618...-055-small.jpg

“Green and pleasant land?”

If you mean a potential location for the New Jerusalem - no - but it is a green and pleasant place

https://www.pprune.org/members/32618...17-180211t.jpg

From the brown staining in the fields it is clearly somewhere flat. I think your last airfield was on a Danish island and Denmark is mostly flat so a search through Danish grass airfields led me to Tonder.

It is indeed Tonder - a very quiet but v pleasant spot Flap 40 has control

https://www.pprune.org/members/32618...915-200604.jpg

Thanks. I'm just about to set off on my hol's so OPEN HOUSE.

Going back to the Amchitka challenge of a couple of pages ago, I found this interesting photo of the bomber strip which I thought I'd share. What a grim looking place.

https://olxhqq.bl3301.livefilestore....&cropmode=none


Still OPEN HOUSE.

There is a great book about the Aleutian Campaign called "The Thousand Mile War"

Doh! I should have spotted it strait away having been there several tmes! :uhoh: Russ

Well, in the absence of other offers, try this:


https://www.pprune.org/members/66630...wpairnov70.jpg

Seeb, Muscat, Oman???

No, but vaguely the right area

Masirah???

Salahah? ...

Sharjah!!!

Who are you calling hooligans ?

It is 8 Sqn not 6

This was 1970 during the Radfan escapades - Sharjah as has been mentioned.

Oldpax has it: RAF Sharjah in 1970. Hunters of 8 Sqn, RAF. We were based at Muharraq, Bahrain, but had no weapon training facility there, so we (and our neighbours 208 Sqn) would visit Sharjah regularly to use the range on the coast a few miles SW of Dubai.

After the withdrawal from Aden in 1967, Sharjah was expanded and had a few years of being quite busy. In 1969-70 it was home to 78 Sqn (Wessex), 84 Sqn (Andovers), a detachment of Shackletons from the UK, and an AAC Sqn with Beavers. All gone by the end of 1971.

In the late 90s I went back a few times. There was by then a new airport about 6 miles inland. The old field had been built over. The runway had become a dual carriageway with lighting on a central strip - but not resurfaced, so the old taxiway turnoff lighting was still present!

Lovely photo, kenparry!

Open house then!I mentioned Sharjah as it seemed the only one left out!Nice to see an 8 squadron pair.There is a book coming out with Amazon on"Radfan Hunters by an ex 8 squadron friend of mine!!Yes I also served on 8sqdn but early sixties.