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?