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Name that Northwest Airport

Found this linked off the Lost Airports of WA site:

http://www.pacificnorthwestflying.com/ntnwa/index.html

Maybe some of you WA guys can actually answer.
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This one looks cool:
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Looks like Crane Island.

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If you get this one I'm buyin' the beer. Hint: it ain't in the Northwest. In fact it ain't in the north.
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New Zealand?
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Guess I'm buyin' the beer. It's Glenorchy on the South Island where they filmed "Lord of the Rings".
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A pleasure.
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Regular or dark?
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You're on! Just curious, what kinda stogies?
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I think I gotcha this time.
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Hint: It's in the U.S. Even in the northwest..
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Anybody know exactly what Vancouver neighborhood this is in?

From Pacific Northwest Flying:

Fly For Fun Airport, Vancouver, WA (W56)
Correctly identified first by Eric Taylor.

Shoe-horned into a north Vancouver neighborhood, Fly For Fun doesn't seem to get a lot of visitors, but it is a public use airport that's open to anyone who wants to brave its 2400' grass runway, which looks pretty inviting to me. I haven't been there yet myself, but I love "neighborhood grass strips" like this and hope to make it there this summer.

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Zane, I don't know one Vancouver neighborhood from another, but Fly For Fun is about 4 or 5 miles due north of Evergreen Field,where the NWAAC antique fly-in was held annually for about 40 years. Evergreen Field is on east Mill Plain Road in East Vancouver. I recognized the contest photo airport just by chance from flying around the area while attending the fly-in.
The lat/long of Fly For Fun (45.41.14N X 122.31.19W) are within a whisker of the lat/long for the old Clark County Airport (45.41N X 122.33W),according to new (2001) and old (1994) editions of the state-issued "Pilot's Guide To Washington Airports". The airport photo's look kinda similar, but the surrounding area looks way more built up in the 2001 photo. Of course it would, if it was the same airport years later! I can't tell if Fly For Fun is really the same airport, or not. Anybody here familiar with this area?

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