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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.