PPRuNe Forums - Which Aerodrome Mk III

Not a waste of time at all. The runway was deactivated for commercial purposes in the seventies, leaving only the air force base. Now, if you've found 11 bases, which of them might be near rivers that rise and fall?

dook	10th Feb 2019 10:50

I think it might be home to Escuadron de Transporte 421.

Iquitos ?

broadreach

10th Feb 2019 10:55

Getting agonizingly close, dook, but the name of the game is "Which Aerodrome Mk III” :cool:

broadreach

10th Feb 2019 11:01

Indeed, Iquitos. The floatplane ramp leads into a lake called Morona Cocha. In recent years the Amazon at Iquitos has been breaking its own records for high and low water so the base can become inaccessible during the dry season.
Your stick, dook.

dook	10th Feb 2019 11:01

Story of my life.
Get close and then someone else gets in while I'm looking.

edit: crossed posts.

dook	10th Feb 2019 11:14

Many thanks broadreach.

Contrary to the views of one or two people on this thread, I do not consider that it belongs to me.

Accordingly, OH.

sycamore

10th Feb 2019 11:26

...FAP Base Area Grupo 42..........OH if correct......
AHH,too late....

broadreach

10th Feb 2019 12:13

Completely off topic but Iquitos would have been just the place for the Chapecoense football team 146 to refuel.

Self loading bear

10th Feb 2019 12:40

Broadreach,

From internet there are 2 Airports in Iquitos

Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta International Airport

And

Antiguo Aeroporto Iquitos
Old Iquitos airport
(which you challenged)

from Wiki on the Peruvian Airforce:

Air Wing Nº 4

Air Group Nº 42 – headquarters: Iquitos
- Air Squadron 421 (operating DHC-6 and Y-12)
- Air Squadron 422 (operating PC-6)
Santa Clara Air Base – headquarters: Iquitos

Are only the (float equipped) Twin Otters based on the old airport?
Is the old Iquitos airport then the same as Santa Clara?

SLB

dook	10th Feb 2019 12:44

This should be interesting...…………….

broadreach

10th Feb 2019 12:58

SLB, yes, the base is also called Santa Clara, just to confuse the opposition! The old airport itself isn't called that, though, and I can't remember what it was called other than "Iquitos". I lived there during several stages of my life and recall teaching my little brother to ride a bike on the runway - our house was at the other end - and being chased off numerous times. There were no fences and the runway was lined with huts and light industry. It was sometimes quite scary. A 1-11 swerved to avoid a cow or pig crossing it and clipped a mound of runway rubble, which thrust one of the main gears up, jamming the flap but succeeding in taking off. Landed later at Tarapoto and was repaired. One I was on did hit a pig with the nosegear, and aborted. Awful mess.
C'mon, enough of this, dook declared Open House!

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