airfield

Example Sentences

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Drive five minutes toward London and you’ll find an airfield that became a Rolls-Royce factory and is now a Warner Bros. complex.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The government says its facilities include an airfield and deep-water port, as well as advanced communications and surveillance capabilities.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 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

Marina’s plane came down near Saratov, painfully close to the familiar airfield at Engels, just out of reach and invisible in the storm.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein