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sa_bushwar
05-30-2006, 04:11 AM
Can anybody identify the airport in this picture?

I found the negative in a WWII-era book, in an antique shop.




www.geocities.com/sa_bushwar
Luno
05-30-2006, 04:20 AM
In what country?
sa_bushwar
05-30-2006, 05:15 AM
In what country?


Don't know - looks German?

(I found the loose negative (4"x4"), placed inside the book)
oldsoak
05-30-2006, 10:04 AM
Its an airfirled - no concrete runway - planes are not dispersed and some are not camouflaged - and cant see any blast pens. Peacetime photo or one in a low threat area - wasnt there a commonwealth training program in SA during the war ?
Para
05-31-2006, 08:29 AM
The two engine aircraft look like they could be Avro Ansons, this single engine planes may be Havards, so I would guess this could be a training base in Canada. Just behind the the yellow e of page on the picture there is plane that looks very much like a DC3
DeltaWhisky58
05-31-2006, 08:55 AM
I agree with Para on thew Ansons, but I don't think the single engined a/c are Harvards, the wing plan is wrong - the Harward had a sloping leading edge and straight trailing edge. Some of the other twins may be Oxfords and Blenheims.
wolfrider
05-31-2006, 09:14 AM
Its look like a model - runway is cut off.
DeltaWhisky58
05-31-2006, 09:33 AM
Its look like a model - runway is cut off.

It's a WW2 training airfield - there were no runways as such, just grass strips - the concrete hard standings were for parking/servicing only.
Hunted
06-01-2006, 08:51 AM
Its look like a model - runway is cut off.

I don't think so as the shaddows suggest one very well defined light source, such as the Sun.Look at it real close.
Mastermind
06-01-2006, 09:31 AM
Possibly a Beaufighters, , Blenhimes and Mosquitos...I believe the faded gray AC in front of the right side hangars are possibly gliders. The dispersal is such that the pic is either very late in the war or in a very safe area. The lack of concrete runways indicates early in the war...pre American era...certainly pre 1944...although grass fields were in use in England throughout the war, particularly with training units. Just my guess, of course.
DeltaWhisky58
06-01-2006, 09:45 AM
Can anybody identify the airport in this picture?

I found the negative in a WWII-era book, in an antique shop.

www.geocities.com/sa_bushwar (http://www.geocities.com/sa_bushwar)

Is it possible for you to post a higher resolution scan - or a link to one - this image is just not good enough for postive identification. There may even be an airfield code on the signal square if this is a British/Commonwealth airfield, although such information may not have been present in wartime.
Luno
06-01-2006, 10:03 AM
I did find this picture of North Battleford Airport, WWII its not the same airport as in the original picture but the shape of the building are very similar to that picture
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/5137/north20battleford20air20port20.th.jpg (http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=north20battleford20air20port20.jpg)

link
http://www.sask2005.ca/stories/files/FUL/North%20Battleford%20Air%20Port%20%20WWII_1.jpg
DeltaWhisky58
06-01-2006, 10:24 AM
British/Commonwealth military airfields - especially the pre-war "Expansion period" (1937-8) ones were mostly built to a fairly set pattern.