Comments for the World @ OurAirports

incorrect position

🔗 Sat, 29 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Kurray Airport, Australia

incorrect position

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Sat, 29 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Hebel airstrip, Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

incorrect position

🔗 Sat, 29 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Coondambo Airport, Australia

incorrect position

Opened in 2017

🔗 Sat, 29 Jan 2022
— @david at Blaise Diagne International Airport, Senegal

This airport opened in December 2017, and scheduled airline service moved here from Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport inside the city.

https://ourairports.com/airports/GOOY/

No more airline service

🔗 Sat, 29 Jan 2022
— @david at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, Senegal

This was formerly Dakar's principal airport, but in December 2017, scheduled airline service moved to the newly-constructed Blaise Diagne International Airport, 43 km outside the city.

https://ourairports.com/airports/GOBD/

(no subject)

🔗 Sat, 29 Jan 2022
— @Jan_Olieslagers at Szentkirályszabadja Airfield, Hungary

Formerly a Soviet Air Base, now largely abandoned and derelict. Some flying seems to occur, though.

Former DEW Line station

🔗 Wed, 26 Jan 2022
— @david at Cape Peel DEW Line Station, Canada

This was a Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line station until 1963. The runway outline is still visible.

Ice runway

🔗 Wed, 26 Jan 2022
— @david at George Lake Aerodrome, Canada

This airport looks like it's a seaplane base, but it's actually a seasonal ice runway.

DEW line

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @david at Sisimiut Airport, Greenland

The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line auxiliary station was actually at Qaqqatoqaq, nearby.

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Lake Glen Maggie Airfield (Coongulla), Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Gleneagles Park Station, Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

incorrect position

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Wilsons Promontory Airport (Yannakie Airport), Australia

incorrect position

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Stoney Creek (buffalo) airfield, Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Maygars Hill Winery Airstrip, Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

incorrect position

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Longwood Airport, Australia

incorrect position

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Sunbury East Airport, Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Ling Lake Airfield, Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

incorrect position

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Navarre Airport, Australia

incorrect position

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Concongella private airfield, Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @adidas at Stirling North/Flinders Field Airport, Australia

MISSING FROM WEBSITE

Airport photo

🔗 Mon, 24 Jan 2022
— @david at Kulusuk Airport, Greenland

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kulsusuk_Airport_-_panorama_(25046985024).jpg

DEW line

🔗 Mon, 24 Jan 2022
— @david at Kulusuk Airport, Greenland

The US military originally built this airport in 1956 as part of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line to detect Soviet bombers attacking over the Arctic during the Cold War. It is now a civilian airport with STOL air service.