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

So far, it has confirmed five locations including Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base, an airfield known as La Carlota and Port La Guaira, Caracas' main conduit to the Caribbean Sea.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

It happened when a Pe-2 dive-bomber landed at Normandie-Niemen’s airfield during a snowstorm in the winter of 1943–1944.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein