airfield
Example Sentences
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Since then, US bombers and other planes have been seen taking off and landing from the airfield, which is the only one on British mainland used for this purpose.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Land is being cleared for a military radar and a remote airfield widened for heavy aircraft.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Pacific commander, has said, the reason the Chinese are working to strike the carrier’s mobile airfield is because they’ve already figured out how to target everything on land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The nearby U-Tapao airfield became a major base of operations during the Vietnam War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
They couldn’t use bright lights to guide them in to land, because any kind of permanent airfield lighting might have been spotted by enemy aircraft.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
