airstrip

A small airstrip was rarely used except in medical emergencies.

Islanders have already photographed the aircraft on the airstrip.

He said that due to the hilly landscape that surrounds Eglinton airstrip, the volume of plane crashes were "high" and many "fatal".

Sitting on a hillside above the city, small 35-seat propeller planes take off and land from a tarmac airstrip.

On a calm day with clear skies, flying to the remote airstrip is a thrill, an easily accessible adventure and a celebrated rite of passage in Southern California’s tight-knit private pilot community.