Does this help?


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....635d60edda.jpg

Not a lot - we can't read the lettering

If it's in "Turkey/Lebanon/Syria" the original challenge picture shows no hills, but the second one indicates its hilly close to the airfield

Are we near the coast?

It is fairly close to the sea. The airfield sits in a flat bottomed valley with hills both sides. Within recorded history the valley was an inlet from the sea. The angle of the picture looks down the valley.

Having scoured the coast of Turkey I think it's Selcuk-Efes, south of Izmir?

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d13dc6e1df.jpg

Indeed it is. Right next to the Efes (Ephesus) archaelogical site. Where the airfield is was actually a harbour at the time Ephesus was built. Used mostly by visitors to Ephesus but also has an active parachute school and freefall operation.

Over to you A56

Tough challenge............ here's one with a watertower as well as trees.............and half a bus as its a public holiday today

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....09f4c163ee.jpg

Orthodox Easter Monday? or
Labour Monday?
for the public holiday.
wild stab at St kitts and Nevis?

In the UK it's the "early May Bank Holiday" - Labour decided years ago to give a May Day Holiday but couldn't face the bad associations with Karl Marx & Friends so it's on the succeeding Monday (normally). Other countries have fabulously named holidays - "St George's Day", "Koningsdag", "Memorial Day", "Tomb Sweeping Day" - we get to throng the streets to celebrate "late August Bank Holiday"............... doesn't have the same ring to it somehow :(


Back on the challenge - Well yes - a wild stab indeed - and a miss by a lot more than a mile..............................

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a16c37ad6e.jpg

We’re aircraft nerds not bus nerds. Indonesia?

I thought it was a bank holiday in the challenge country.
Yes Kingsday/Koningsdag
It just had another ring when his mother was on the throne.
Koninginnendag / Queensday.
There is still a real Queensday but it is not a bank holiday ( Canal Pride 3 August)

Mayday was originally a pagan festival. In the '50s I can remember all the young maidens coming out to dance round the maypole on the village green forming complex patterns as they wove the tapes in and out.
That of course was coupled with the morris dancers dancing in the town square and bashing each other with 'bladders'.
Then in the early '60s Wilson's labour government hi jacked it as a communist/marxist festival.

On here? You have to be an expert on trees, fences, street lights..................... putting up an AIRCRAFT is fatal...........

Yes Republik Indonesia - which is a big place but probably Bear's relatives were there for a couple of centuries

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....53a3950355.jpg
Not currently an international airport I believe

Pontianak...?

No - some distance from there

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2950c19ac8.jpg

Akpol Semarang ?

Nope............................ like many Indonesian cities it has a rather interesting colonial history

Ambon/Pattimura (WAPP).