Name that Airport

[z740]

Xining Caojiabao Airport, China? XNN/ZLXN

That's the one. Take it away!

-Chris

[jkstark]

OK... So here goes...

Watch out - you may not always have the right of way landing on this airport - and you don't want to push that issue; the big ol' iron horse might not like it...

[Petertenthije]

Gisborne, New Zealand. They've got a railway line crossing the runway.

[jkstark]

Gisborne, New Zealand. They've got a railway line crossing the runway.

Sorry, but no... This airport has/had one commercial operator...

[z740]

Burnie Wynyard Airport in Tasmania?

-Chris

[jkstark]

Burnie Wynyard Airport in Tasmania?

Still not the one, though...

[brianw999]

Peshawar, Pakistan ?

EDIT.... No its not, it's Manakara, Madagascar.

[jkstark]

Peshawar, Pakistan ?

EDIT.... No its not, it's Manakara, Madagascar.

Manakara it is...

For the record, Burnie Wynard no longer has an active runway at the spot where the tracks go; the displaced threshold of 23 was moved at some point to avoid the tracks.

Peshawar has too many carriers...

Over to you...

[brianw999]

You can land a plane here but not a USN sbmarine even though there is water nearby...and that's a matter of record.

[Petertenthije]

You can land a plane here but not a USN sbmarine even though there is water nearby...and that's a matter of record.

Silly answer: Geneva Cointrin airport. You can land a plane there, but good luck trying to get a US submarine into Lake Geneva.

More serious answer: Eureka Municipal airport near Somoa California where a US submarine ran aground in 1916.

[jkstark]

Or...

Are you thinking of Williams Field, serving McMurdo?

[brianw999]

No, not Eureka.

The record refers to the airport. A submarine does one thing generally very well.....but it has a limit, which this airfield exceeds.

[jkstark]

Hmm... Schipol?

[jkstark]

Or possibly Bar Yehuda Airport (MTZ/LLMZ) by the Dead Sea in Israel... Record held as the lowest airfield in the world, at -1240 ft MSL

[brianw999]

Or possibly Bar Yehuda Airport (MTZ/LLMZ) by the Dead Sea in Israel... Record held as the lowest airfield in the world, at -1240 ft MSL

You're getting too good at this ! Bar Yehuda it is. At -1240 ft below MSL it is around double the depth that a USN nuclear sub can go below the surface.

Over to you.