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dook 12th Feb 2019 18:22

Doesn't look used very much.

evansb 12th Feb 2019 18:33

Not so much as of late, but still open. Actually had HS-125 corporate jet service back in the day. Photo was taken in 2005. Current image on Google Earth looks even less cared for.

broadreach 12th Feb 2019 18:34

Lots of silica sand around, and a hint of rapids in that dark stream. I'll guessing Africa, Angola perhaps.

dook 12th Feb 2019 18:36

I'm thinking outbackish.

evansb 12th Feb 2019 18:45

Not Angola nor Australia.

kcockayne 12th Feb 2019 19:43

Would this be the south east of France, by any chance ?

evansb 12th Feb 2019 20:59

Not on the European Continent.

Self loading bear 12th Feb 2019 22:04

In Canada?

evansb 12th Feb 2019 22:10

Not Canada, but the locale had a Canadian connection.

Self loading bear 12th Feb 2019 22:29

CHC or Okanagan helicopter operation?

evansb 13th Feb 2019 00:03

No, but I did find this gem of a photo taken at the mystery aerodrome:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e76f1c6385.jpg

Please note I'll be back around 1400 UTC.

broadreach 13th Feb 2019 08:24

Gave it away there, evansb. Canadian connection = Alcan; Alcan = British Guiana/Guyana. Mackenzie Airstrip. I knew there was something about that sand! Open House if correct.

dook 13th Feb 2019 08:24

Maybe you should have airbrushed out serial number 34322.

A Google search brings up Watooka, Guyana.

chevvron 13th Feb 2019 09:37


Originally Posted by dook (Post 10387864)
Not Pacific or French territory.

Checking on colour scheme.

I only suggested that because when Lancaster G-ASXX (now at East Kirkby) arrived in the UK from New Caledonia in about 1966, it was in all white 'Aeronavale' colour scheme.

dook 13th Feb 2019 09:58

Thanks - now I'm with you.

evansb 13th Feb 2019 13:21

broadreach is correct. Linden-Mackenzie, Guyana. Linden Airport (ICAO: SYLD) is an airport serving Linden, the capital of the Upper Demerara-Berbice region of Guyana.

As requested, OPEN HOUSE.

dook 13th Feb 2019 13:30

My suggestion just shows how unreliable the web can be. :(

evansb 13th Feb 2019 13:39

Re the USAF Piasecki H-21, my source says Mackenzie, British Guiana. Watooka, Linden and Mackenzie are served by the Linden-Mackenzie airport. It is now just the Linden airport. It was once known as just the Mackenzie airport. What was the USAF "flying Banana" doing in British Guiana anyway? I can speculate, but I have no facts to back me up.

FYI Watooka was a residential area of MacKenzie Guyana, named after Watooka Creek (an Amerindian name).

dook 13th Feb 2019 13:48

It does seem to be a strange place for the USAF to have been.

Maybe it had something to do with the "constitutional coup".

dook 13th Feb 2019 15:28

I'm waiting for a "non-regular" to post something.


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