Thank you nvubu.

I am monitoring two other threads at the moment so OH.

I've been here, but not flown from this location:


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f65b1a18d7.jpg

The float base at Vancouver?

MJG

Not British Columbia.

I've been here I think - we spent a night there about 30 years back - is it Los Angeles in Washington State? I think it or the port area featured in Hunt for Red October??

You can just see the "Coast Guard" label on the hangar - and I detected a weasel factor in "not in British Columbia....."

5/10 but close enough. It's the US Coast Guard station on Ediz Hook spit at Port Angeles. It was the first permanent US CG Air Station on the West Coast, established in 1935. The hangar and the admin building are still there.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ad01d78567.jpg
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....342223f9b5.jpg


I drove out to have a look while waiting to catch the Coho ferry to Victoria last August. Nice views from the spit, but you can't see much of the base from the gate!

I was tempted to say "Not on the West Coast" if asked! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_...n_Port_Angeles

Asturias has control.

PS The amphibian in front of the hangar looks like a Douglas Dolphin. What's the biplane flying overhead?

NAF PN-7???

Slb, I think you are right. I had never heard of the PN flying boats, but it looked awfully familiar, which I now put down to having found out that the PN series were a development of the Felixstowe flying boats.


For Asturias:

The reason it stuck in my memory was that we stayed at a very upmarket "B&B" in a large converted house there - all was fine until the breakfast when the guests discovered that the 2 lady owners had been at the sauce overnight and were still drunk as lords..... it was a very Faulty Towers meal................. :p

Let us try this one

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ac53cc46cd.jpg

Hmmm. an interesting one. Airbridges but a distinct lack of traffic. The landscape looks Australia-ish.

The altimeter is showing 100'. Is this an airfield near sea-level or is it in a country that still uses QFE?

Reminiscent of so many Australian Airports; could almost be Perth some 30-40 years ago?

I42 - I honestly don't know but it isn't near the sea................ airport is over 250 m AMSL they do a fair bit of helicopter training there

Definitely NOT in Australia John - but agree as to the look of the place. Quite busy and "international" in the name but I think there are only internal flights operating normally. It was opned post 2000

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bdb9b972c0.jpg

Spain or Italy?

neither................ quite a large town/city but not very famous....

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ae7a407832.jpg

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5871e78080.jpg

Santiago di Compostela?

You know I did that one last month............ ;)

I guess one airport waiting area IS pretty much the same as the next - but this is a longer walk than SCQ should you wish to visit - a lot longer walk.........

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....005195a9b6.jpg