airfield

Example Sentences

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If a local airfield wasn’t available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to fly equipment in and the material out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to the airfield near Honiton at about 13:00 GMT on Saturday.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

The United States can count on plenty of other military assets in the region, including ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf, and the Baledogle airfield in Somalia.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

Technical director Jeremy Howitt said the advantage of trialling the service there was the large amount of airspace around the airfield that cannot be used by non-approved aircraft.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

When the squadron of fighter planes saw the chaos they’d caused by scattering the Po-2 regiment, they didn’t have any choice but to fly on to the airfield alone.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein