Is that a lake or sea at the top,beyond the runway....?////

That's the sea.

Near Stanstead but not Europe?

Hi Creweite. If you mean Stansted (EGSS) then I never said it was near there (although I am at present). It's very close to Europe but about 3.5 hours from Stansted as a 73 flies.
Not to suggest that anyone does fly there from Stansted.

I may have misled earlier by saying that it isn't in the MIddle East. I don't consider it as such but technically it is. Whoops!

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1c0525f0a8.jpg
These guys were practicing here in April for an anniversary display.

Someone posted an answer - somewhere in Turkey - but it seems to have disappeared.

Well, however it was got Turkey correct. If the vanishing poster cares to re-post they will get it if they have the correct location. If not anyone else care to post? That's the Turkish Stars by the way. Thanks for the info Asturias56.

It wasn't someone I recognised as a regular on here - they gave an answer and declared OH

I haven't the time to check out Turkey inch by inch today - its a bigger place than I thought!

They posted Canakkale Turkey

Could be - the basic layout with the turning areas at the runway threshold is pretty common in Turkey but the overhead posted in the challenge looks as if it's pretty old - there's a great big terminal area on the NW side of the runway now according to GE. Street View imagery is 2014 and doesn't show the terminal but the vertical 2019 shot shows a hexagonal shape similar to the challenge. Google just shows a grotty old tower but the attached link shows the new tower

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en...oiowCnoECA8QBg

It is Canakkale. The whole airport was redeveloped around 2014 including a re-laid runway and the new terrminal. The overhead I posted dates from around that time.
OH it is.

Here's one I must have passed a dozen times before realising it was there

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b559fc77d2.jpg
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UK...near the M25. Amersham area? Cant remember the name of the place.

Yes - it is in the Uk

Yes it is near a main road

No it is not the M25 or near Amersham

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....19b0c2e861.jpg

EMH, Costock?

Disregard.

Not Costock but closer than the M25

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c8522005ac.jpg

How about Denham?

No - you are too London-centric.................

Never sure if this place is busy or not but it seems to have been there a while

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ad426d36f2.jpg

Probably not Popham, but who knows?

Yes - although its a few miles south of the City just off the A46 - I must have passed it dozens of times over the years - OH it is

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4352f4fddf.jpg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7d36262192.jpg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1d60042d68.jpg

Was someone having a laugh when they chose a field 15 miles from the city centre and named it Nottingham Heliport? :rolleyes:

To be fair it's only about 15 minutes out from the centre - and the well heeled all live on that side of town as well

have you seen London Stansted or London Oxford...................... they're well over 50 miles out

IIRC the old Spitting Image TV show had Ryanair advertising "London Mt Pleasant -easier to get to than Stansted, less delays that Heathrow"

Then there was the re-naming of East Midlands to Nottingham East Midlands about 20 years ago.
Caused some confusion with UPS crews looking at Tollerton.
Also, the the nearest city is Derby and it's in Leicestershire.

Middlesborough/Teeside/Durham............... and wasn't EM going to be Robin Hood?

You mean Finningley?
And whatever happened to St Mawgan?:eek:

Not forgetting "London Hurn" just after the WW2. Over 100 miles from London.

Anyone got a picture to post?

I think I count as an irregular regular so here is a BOGOF deal for you.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....18d02e6dd0.jpg

I guess we need a clue. Eastern Med.

Hi Flap. You beat me to it with that one, it was next on my list. However, I will leave it to others to find it.

May be Cigli Air Base near Izmir Turkey?

The one furthest away is Cigli airbase. Google earth has the nearer one as Cigli Military Airport.

dash7fan is in charge.

AGGGHHHH _ I saw that one when I was looking all over Turkey a few days ago for Canakkale - it was so odd I'd filed it for a future challenge.

But I was on the road yesterday and, once again, fame and fortune passed me by.......... :ouch:

PS any reason they didn't put a small taxi strip connecting the two airstrips? They could use it as a road for day to day use.

Thanks and sorry for delay

https://i.imgur.com/FOfnyqAl.jpg

Oh sorry, not at the moment. So OH please. By the way, München Riem is the Airport. D-CACE, ex VZ302, later G-BCOV

Another simple one

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7254a87b03.jpg

packing them in here so here's another picture.........

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....903702534f.jpg

Somewhere warm? Italy?