Anyone Able to Identify This Airport?

[DX Rick]

Searchlight, NV, is another great nesting place of mean insects. But that's another story.

Are you refering to the locals? I swung through there this weekend by car. Thought I was in the twilight zone. Oh yeah, go the speed limit too when it reduces down to 25mph......the one cop in town will be waiting for you.

 

[coloneldan]

I know zackly where that is. That's Auxillary Landing Field 3B at Atlantis. You know, before it sank. I know kuz I wuz there.

OK, OK, I'll take my medication.

 

[A Squared]

But with good-sized conifers -- could that be Caribbean?

Sure. You get Norfolk Pine in many Tropical areas. I've seen them in Hawaii and in costal Brazil. I don't specifically recall seeing them in the Carribean, but I'd be surprised if they didn't grow there.

 

[Nixon]

It is Hamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

 

[405]

Lord Howe Island, NSW, Australia.

 

[Mmmmmm Burritos]

C'mon guys, this isn't hard. Go to airliners.net and do a search for Darren Howie and you'll find it.

Lord Howe Island, Australia

Doh, beat me by a couple minutes...

 

[405]

That's what I did, Burritos.

 

[G2T]

Is it...E51, Bagdad, AZ?
Last time I was up there I got attacked by a swarm of bees tucked away in the engine of an old 182. Was my fault, I shouldn't have tried to take a leak so close to the tiedown.
Searchlight, NV, is another great nesting place of mean insects. But that's another story.

Searchlight is screwed up. A random 5000ft strip in the desert with NOTHING at the 'airport' (although another good place to take a leak). You go 15 miles south and there is a lighted dirt strip with a casino!

 

[bubbers44]

Looks like the airport on the island just north of Roatan off Honduras. Flew over it a lot but always above 30,000 feet going into TGU.

 

[AirBadger]

Searchlight is screwed up. A random 5000ft strip in the desert with NOTHING at the 'airport' (although another good place to take a leak). You go 15 miles south and there is a lighted dirt strip with a casino!

Yeah I looked at a satellite pic of that "airport"...pretty strange if you ask me. It's probably a leftover designated UFO landing area.

 

[whaleroast]

Are you refering to the locals? I swung through there this weekend by car. Thought I was in the twilight zone. Oh yeah, go the speed limit too when it reduces down to 25mph......the one cop in town will be waiting for you.

Searchlight: the kind of place that if you go missing, the locals just shrug their shoulders and say "Ayah".