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Jasper Park Airstrip.

Local knowledge wins out! If it wasn't Banff, Jasper was the next logical choice. The picture has an interesting history:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d1b13aae3f.jpg

The peak clipped off on the left of the picture is Morro Peak, just to the north of the present day Jasper airfield and on the east side of the Athabasca River valley, that is followed by the Yellowhead Highway and the CNR tracks.

Two US Army DH-4Bs landed at Jasper in 1920. They were part of a US Army expedition to Alaska and back.

Quote:

Military aircraft began flying in Alaska in 1920 when the Black Wolf Squadron, or The Alaska Flying Expedition, made The New York to Nome Flight. Capt. St. Clair Street commanded 7 men in 4 DH-4s as they took off from Mitchel Field on 17 July 1920. Each plane had a black profile of a Wolf's head painted on their sides. The trip organizer, Billy Mitchell wanted to establish an airway to Alaska and Asia. The 9349 mile round trip route included flying west to North Dakota, then north through Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, and onwards to Fairbanks on 19 Aug. and finally Nome on the 23rd. They started their return trip on the 31st, landing Mitchel Field on 20 Oct. 1920 after 112 flying hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Air_Force

Capt. St. Clair Streett (at left) with pilots of the 1920 Alaskan Flying Expedition:
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....accd445ce.jpeg

More information in a book blurb here:
https://www.windcanyonbooks.com/resl...roducts_id=343

evansb has control.

Thank you. Incredible story. What brave aviators they were! I will post a challenge around 1600 UTC, Friday. If a PPRuNer would like to post a challenge in the interim, by all means feel free to do so. Good night.

Looks like I need three more posts to be able to post a URL, so OPEN HOUSE.

Nope - not 10,000 miles away tho.......... this
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f0f39f7332.jpg
is slightly bigger as well

Going back to the DH-4s at Jasper, here is a contemporaneous newspaper account:

The Edmonton Bulletin, September 28, 1920

As evansb said - brave aviators.

Dunstable Downs

open House if correct

I think this guardian has been sold eastwards in 2006?

Yes - its an old photo - sorry!! So you know the answer Bear?

I think I do,
But I have not much time to host another challenge.
Would then be an OH so I prefer to leave this one for somebody else.
If there are no takers I can always check in again later.

Lets try another picture or two - thos was built in WW2 asa temporary strip - these days it's private a/c only I believe - no scheduled flights. The area suffered badly in WW1 and WW2

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e749560e06.jpg

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....15f4b11121.jpg

Let’s change control of threads.
This is Aerodrome de Namurs/Temploux.

Thanks Asturias,

Recently I passed Namur on the highway.
The airport was mentioned on the signs from various directions.
I therefore got the impression that it was larger than it now shows to be.
The Belgian Mirage has been sold to a Polish open air Aircraft museum.

Now this:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d00a13472.jpeg

hmm, very boggy .

That's an old F-28/BAC11/DC-9 hulk on the extreme right - looks like a fire fighting hulk.

Is that a lake or the see? It looks terribly Scandinavian - it's soooooo neat

That a sea but not Scandinavian

Not Baltic either
You are not getting much closer.
I am searching the type of the practise hulk.
Standby for that.

east coast Canada...?

Even further off-course
Cannot find confirmation on the training aircraft.
next clue:

The ship is from Luxembourg

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cbb2b7261.jpeg

I think that might be Brisbane.

And I think you are correct. THold 32 a couple of years back.

MJG

So now I have waited for other time zones to react, I think there is little use to wait till 24 hours have past.
Flap40 has control with Brisbane.

The dredger provided the sand for the new parallel runway.
The Belgian dredging company registers its ships in Luxembourg for fiscal reasons.
No way this Dredger Charles Darwin could reach Its Homeport.

Cheers. The shadows versus the runway direction pointed to the southern hemisphere and a google of rwy32 Australia came up with Brisbane as the first choice.

Try this one.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e693c6aa69.jpg

Guernsey St Peter Port

Sorry! a bit late in declaring oxen's correct with St Peter Port, Guernsey.

Thank you,
Another one I came across on holiday
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....10a706231a.jpg

But missing a few marbles perhaps?

Are you thinking Parthenon? I don't think there is an airport there.

No, just perhaps digging into the mind of Philhellene.

Digging? Mind? Marbles? Philhellene?
There is a marble mine on Paros, but that is not Paros airport.
You are barking up the wrong tree.
Or down the wrong hole.