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I believe the this is the one going to Florida as the other one has red tail, from Wikipedia:

Philippine Mars - JRM-1 BuNo 76820, delivered to the USN on 26 June 1946 and assigned to VR-2 at NAS Alameda, California. Converted and re-designated JRM-3. Withdawn from service on 22 August 1956 and sold in 1959, it was converted to forest fire fighting aircraft and registered CF-LYK (later C-FLYK). The aircraft continued to fly with Coulson Group at Sproat Lake, British Columbia...

Maybe but most likely they have also noticed the Google car.

Gone, from the Wikipedia: "The Catalina was finally broken up after sitting in Ensenada Harbor for about 12 years. The scrapping of the SS Catalina began in January 2009 and was finished by late 2009 or early 2010."

Possibly the ship named here: http://www.boatinfoworld.com/registration.asp?vn=273138

Right, to be exact Alfa Romeo Spider QV from 1989. Pictures of the actual car, the one in the map:

http://www.bestman.fi/alfa.htm

Too easy this was...

Vartiovene 55 was moved back to the sea in April 2012 and is currently based in Helsinki.

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1635284

Live Maps picture shows that it is a rig, not a real aeroplane.

Possibly U-12 since all others of the class are either scrapped or in museums (U-10 of this class is also in Wilhelmshaven in Marinemuseum nearby).

Now in the drydock nearby.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=64.57635282340279,39.816083908081055&z=17

This aircraft has since been dismantled and scrapped:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2006/08/03/208269/pictures-one-of-last-remaining-examples-of-worlds-fastest-turboprop-tupolev-tu-114-broken-up-at.html

Not the only one, see Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane#Survivors

The island in the thumbnail is Henderson Island which is part of Pitcairn Island Colony but Pitcairn itself is further southwest even if Google's map view calls it Pitcairn. There's no useful satellite picture of Pitcairn itself on the Google Maps.

de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-1_Chipmunk

This probably one of the up to 20 mothballed oil and gas rigs that have been parked up in the Cromarty Firth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6410943.stm

I think it is a sailboat, possible with masts taken down and most of the deck covered with some kind of protective awning.

Fine article with pictures:

http://www.maritimematters.com/mall_alang_pk.html

This is the wreck of cruise liner "Rasa Sayang". She was originally Bergensfjord of the Norwegian America Line completed in 1956. She was sold to the French line in 1971 and renamed "De Grasse". In 1973 she was sold again and became "Rasa Sayang". On 17th August 1980, a fire started in the engine room whilst she was under refurbishment at Perama, Greece. She was towed out of the docks and capsized and sank near the island of Kynosoura, some kilometres from Perama.

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Sailed away...

These were probably the ships of Renaissance Cruises which went bankrupt in 2001 and were laid up in Merseilles until sold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Cruises

Sailed away since, These were probably the ships of Renaissance Cruises which went bankrupt in 2001 and were laid up in Merseilles until sold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Cruises

Perhaps (and this is just perhaps) this is the wreck of Iranian coastal minesweeper Shahbaz (US pennant number MCS 275 though built for Iran) which according to some sources was lost by fire in 1975 and according to British reports stricken in 1974 after collision damage. Size of the wreck at least is about right.

This the wreck of the former Italian Atlantic liner Raffaello, information here:

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/570718

And history and pictures of the ship here:

http://www.michelangelo-raffaello.com/english_site/en/en.htm

Departed...

Looks like North American AT-6 Texan to me. They were often converted to represent various WWII aircraft for movies because they were (and are) easily and more cheaply available than the real thing.

No longer there

It's a Wave class fast fleet tanker, either RFA Wave Ruler or RFA Wave Knight

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/wave/

This is the modern city of Truva. The ruins of ancient Troy lie west of it, here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/26469/

I'm sorry but it most certainly is the Clemenceau, picture here:
http://www.radiomaritime2.info/forum/im/16061Croisieres%20jacquot%201%20.jpg

Looks like Antonov AN-12 although I'm not really sure

Filled up, no longer there, or should it in this case be: there at last?

It's Tracker alright or possibly its transport version called Trader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-2_Tracker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-1_Trader

It's Tupolev TU-4, Wikipedia has more info, also about this particular plane:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

Some of the exhibits are quite interesting:

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/images/chandler/01.jpg

I think it is being unloaded. I have a map from the other end of the line:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/19560/

This is really an answer to private message but I put it in here since you are not yourself accepting them: You can't edit your own submission. Only moderators can do that. If you want corrections made, tell it us with a comment to your submission. After corrections are made we will delete the comment. Anyway, welcome to Virtual Globetrotting!

The bridge has since been finished.

Avord Air Base
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avord_Air_Base

It's an Osumi class landing ship. I posted an another one earlier here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/15617/

Try here:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_inquiry.asp

See my comment to http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/19482/

Perhaps the intention was not to built an exact replica of anything but just to make a "generic" aircraft carrier look-a-like.

It is a replica of Nimitz-class carrier, info and pictures here:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/cv-pics.htm

The site is called Orient Green Boat Theme Park.

Good job!

I think they are not being launched but just being moved around.

I think it's just a Boeing 747

What is it with this particular map that invites spam? I have already deleted a few earlier today.

Thanks

Keep looking...

Your American football should really be called handball but then again that's another ballgame... ;=)

This is the former RAF Khormaksar

In most parts of the world this is called football

These are Mig-31s, according to Wikipedia they are deployed at Yelizovo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_Air_Force_bases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mig-31

It seems to be about three kilometers long, isn't that enough?

Might also be Lisunov Li-2, Soviet built version of DC-3 (NATO reporting name Cab, had loading door on the other side of fuselage and different engines) of which over 2000 were built.

It's Douglas SBD-5 (A-24B) according to info link. It also has USAAF serial and that means it is really army version (A-24B) just painted with the Navy colours.

This airport is also a military base, the home of Finnish Air Force Headquarters and Support Squadron and various other installations. There is a also Central Finland Aviation Museum located here but there is not much to see on Google Maps as exhibits are indoors because of the Finnish weather.
http://museum.flight-history.com/museum/zoom.php?id=272

Note that there's a small plane landing...

It looks too small to be either one compared to other aircraft around. Perhaps it is a homebuilt replica. These are usually smaller than the fullsize originals and are often sold in kit form from the firms like Loehle Aircraft Corporation (http://www.loehle.com/).

I thought about Mistral at first but the horizontal tailplane is of a type used only on two-seaters and the French did not built two-seaters.

Welcome but please be careful with those URL's (check that they work right before you post).

Left one looks like Type 206 boat (they have the distinctive dome at the bow), other two are 212's or 214's

There might be a covering over the cockpit.

Looks like a two-seater Vampire. Tail fits and here is one (es Swiss Air Force) flying in France
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0677412/L/
http://www.vectorsite.net/avvamp_1.html#m6

I think this is also Morane Saulnier MS 317

Grumman F6F Hellcat?

I would say T-33, Mirage III and Dassault Mystere or Super Mystere. I looked here a few weeks ago when I posted the Vautour nearby but had no time to search references to positively identify the Mystere, so I passed this one.

Castle Howard was used as Brideshead in Granada Television's excellent 1981 TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083390/ (TV)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brideshead_Revisited (book)

Antonov An-12

It's Antonov An-12

More likely Antonov An-12

Thumbnail shows one of Breguet Atlantics of the Deutsche Marine based here. They are being replaced by Locheed P-3 Orions.

Aircraft in the thumbnail would have been worth posting separately. It is VFW-614 nineteen of which were built by Fokker VFW consortium in early 1970's. Its engines were mounted on pylons above the wings.
http://www.vfw614.de/index2_e.html (about the type in general)
http://www.vfw614.de/restaurierung_g15_e.html (about this particular aircraft)

In Live Local the aircraft are on the other side of runway.

Live Local shows many more, wonder which one is older...

Plane in the thumbnail is Douglas DC-8

Doesn't really matter, everyone does it, and it most certainly works the other way around, too.

They voted to end the union with Serbia but it has not officially been dissolved yet.

French elegance...

Clemenceau arrived to Brest yesterday 17th May 2006 and her fate is still undecided.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4988664.stm

This is Arzviller-Saint-Louis transverse incline on Marne-Rhine Canal opened in 1969 to bypass 17 old locks.

North American T-28 Trojan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-28_Trojan

It's the Laboe Naval Memorial (Das Marine-Ehrenmal), here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/18356/

This is probably Eastham Refinery at the beginning of Manchester Ship Canal
http://www.bpa.co.uk/pipevine/current/article.php?id=12

I think it's on the German side of the border. German link here:
http://www.kulturpark-online.de/
Some info in English here:
http://www.planetware.com/saarland-state/bliesbruck-european-archeological-park-d-sr-eap.htm

This one seems to have gone back to the nature...

It's not WW1 aircraft. It's Dornier Do 27 from the fifties and as you can see from the shadow, it's not a biplane but a monoplane.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1033475/M/

I have already posted world's first TV tower. It's here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/17200/

Thanks, should have chosen more spectalurar one for number 1000 but lost count for the moment.

There's some reorganisation since, should be Republic RF-84 Thunderflash, Vickers Varsity & Fouga Magister.

This is the town of Lhok Nga (or Lhoknga)

No, it's Dornier Do 27:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1033475/M/

The one on the right looks like one of the Nikitich class, sister ships of the Dobrynja Nikitich, now German Stephan Jantzen:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/17220/

Noticed that and there are three more elsewhere in the harbour, two which I have already posted.

Fire training rig, there are others at least in Stansted and Luton

Gone away, melted...

Ice have melted, it's gone now.

Four-engined jet behind Belfast is Boeing 707-321C EL-AKJ (cn 19375/662)
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=EL-AKJ&distinct_entry=true

Boeing 727-251(F) OY-SES of TNT (Sterling European Airlines), it was used for spares
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=OY-SES&distinct_entry=true

Armoured river gunboat Humaita, laid down in Genoa, Italy April 1929, launched 1930 and completed May 1931, was originally named Capitan Cabral. Sister ship Paraguay (pennant number C1) is also likely to be somewhere in Asuncion.

Nice, built in Helsinki, Finland

Of course this can be called "Eddie F**k" if American sensibilities can't take the F-word ;=)