Ok question for the geography or maybe even the conspiracy buffs out there, on Google earth and Google maps both there is an airport in Idaho roughly 22 miles South East of Mountain Home AF Base identified only as "Unknown Airport" there are no buildings I am able to identify. Zooming in on the field there does appear to be aircraft parked, and a few vehicles parked a mile or so south of the field they could be part of the same field/base/installation, whatever it is. The aircraft appear to be military to me, and there looks to be several types, I am not quite good enough to ID them but they look like mostly fighters to me - W.A.G. So the question is does anyone have any idea what this "Unknown Airfield" is and if so is it still active - it looks like it but for all I know it could be some type of training mock up...lol
For the exact location here are the coordinates from Google Earth
42Deg 44'44.58"N
115Deg 34'12.60"W
My money is a mock up but it is very interesting to look at, if you look at the historical images in Google Earth a couple of the planes are in the same spot in 1998 as they are in 2003, 2005, and 2010, but I could be worng about that...lol
I guess this bring up an interesting secondary question, does anyone know of other "Unknown" airbases in Google Earth might be interesting to see if any made it into FSX? I am going looking for this one.
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