An airbase ( sometimes referred to as a military airfield, military airport, air force station or air force base ) is an aerodrome used by a military force for the operation of military aircraft.

* Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Airbase An urban airbase in Caracas, Venezuela commonly referred to as " La Carlota "

* Other facilities built during the Soviet era are either closed down, used only occasionally or restricted to military use ( e. g., Kant airbase, now a Russian air base near Bishkek ).

A military airport is known as an airbase or air station.

* Naval air station, an airbase of the United States Navy

It provides war-fighters with forces for close air support ( CAS ), air interdiction ( AI ), forward air control ( FAC ), combat search and rescue ( CSAR ), ground based tactical air control, and airbase operations.

However, most air forces choose to augment airbase defense with surface-to-air missile systems as they are such valuable targets and subject to attack by enemy aircraft.

An airbase typically has some facilities similar to a civilian airport — for example air traffic control and firefighting.

An aircraft carrier is a type of naval ship which serves as a seaborne airbase, the development of which has greatly enhanced the capabilities of modern air forces.

During World War II, Rio Grande do Norte was used as an Allied airbase from which to launch air raids on German-occupied North Africa.

Because of the strategic weather advantage of the former PAFB site, as well as its relatively convenient access by air to the most remote parts of Upstate New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton used the former airbase landing strip on her trips to campaign in the North Country region during her first term as a US Senator from New York in early 2002.

The Japanese later used the airbase in Kluang to launch air attacks on targets ranging from Singapore to Sumatra.

During World War II, the airport in Otopeni was used as an airbase by the German air force.

This short passage made it very difficult for Allied naval vessels to intercept Axis transports, while air interdiction proved equally difficult as the nearest Allied airbase to Tunisia, at Malta, was over distant.

Sukhoi Su-24MR at Kubinka ( air base ) | Kubinka airbase

The air base command levels are the combat assets of the ALA. An airbase commander has authority over all units stationed on his base.

It is located near the US consulate as well as the Dhahran military airbase, which is located in an area that formerly housed the domestic and international air terminals for the Eastern Province.

* The air arms of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy conduct Operation 100, an effort to destroy a Chinese airbase crucial to the Soviet Unions supply of aircraft to the Nationalist Chinese.

For most of the war, the airbase at Los Llanos was the main headquarters of the Republican air force.

They are organized into four groups, in addition to the wing commander's immediate staff, in order to carry out their mission to be America's premier mobility team providing world-class air refueling, responsive airlift and airbase support to Headquarters USCENTCOM, Headquarters USSOCOM and 51 other mission partners that all call MacDill home.

On 20 July the air echelons of the 87th, 88th and 89th Troop Carrier Squadrons departed for Canino airbase in Italy in preparation for the August invasion of Southern France, Operation Dragoon.

The nearby airbase was the home station for the Stab & I / KG53 ( Staff & 1st Group of Kampfgeschwader 53 ) operating 38 Heinkel He 111 bombers.

RAF Marham is a Royal Air Force station ; a military airbase, near the village of Marham in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia.

RAF Coltishall was a Royal Air Force station, a military airbase, North-North-East of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, from 1938 to 2006.

In February 2012 a proposition was passed in Stortinget which will make Ørland the principal airbase of northern Norway and replacing the existing station at Bodø.

On September 1, 1939 ( the day the war began ) the airbase was the home station for the I / JG 52 ( 1st Group of the Jagdgeschwader 52 ) flying the Bf109 E-1 fighter aircraft.

Before the British handover of Hong Kong back to China in 1997, the airbase was used by the British Forces Overseas Hong Kong, and was then an Royal Air Force station known as RAF Sek Kong.

A naval air station is a military airbase, and consists of a permanent land-based operations locations for the military aviation division of the relevant branch of a navy.

The 2nd Battalion jumped onto the airfield a day later, soldiers of the 27th Infantry Regiment ( the " Wolfhounds ") rappelled onto the airbase on 17 March 1988 and moved within 3 miles of the Nicaraguan border the same day.

This small but hard-fought airfield was a critical point in the entire island chain, and whoever controlled the airbase more or less controlled the local airspace.

* Military airbase, airfield or field

The airbase is the most important airfield of the RSAF as it houses the bulk of RSAF's fixed-wing frontline squadrons, home to all of RSAF's Airborne early warning and control ( AEWC ) assets, most of the F-16C / D Fighting Falcons and a large number of UAVs.

Podington airfield, near the villages of Hinwick and Podington, was formerly a wartime airbase used by the USAAF during the Second World War.

RAF Burtonwood was mainly used by the United States Air Force between 1942 and closure of the main airfield in 1958 and was the biggest US airbase in Europe.

North of Groß Dölln is an airfield built in the 1950s as a military airbase of the 16th Air Army of the Soviet Forces

Powers ’ U-2, which departed from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan and may have received support from the US Air Station at Badaber ( Peshawar Airbase ), was shot down by an S-75 Dvina ( SA-2 Surface to Air ) missile on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk.

Iqaluit was founded in 1942 as an American airbase, geographically located to provide a stop-over and refueling site for short range fighter aircraft being ferried across the Atlantic to support the war effort in Europe.

* Slovenia contributed to IFOR ( logistical support ) and is very engaged in the SFOR effort, providing VIP support helicopter and light transport aircraft missions and use of an airbase in southern Slovenia ;

RAF Predannack Down ( see Predannack Airfield ) was a Second World War airbase, from which Coastal Command squadrons flew anti-submarine sorties into the Bay of Biscay as well as convoy support in the western English Channel.

While the airbase currently enjoys wide support from Virginia Beach at large, the Pentagon Base Realignment and Closure commission has proposed closure of Oceana within the next decade.

Air support and Air combat tactics came from fighter units from the Nellis AFB, Mirimar USMC airbase.

The United States Air Force effectively took over these facilities temporarily from August 1990 through May 1991 as an airbase for aerial refueling tanker operations in support of the Gulf War.

The Japanese had captured New Georgia in 1942 and built an airbase at Munda Point which began operations in December 1942 to support the Guadalcanal offensives.

The atoll was the only major Japanese airbase within range of the Marshall Islands and was a significant source of support for Japanese garrisons located on islands and atolls throughout the central and south Pacific.

The airbase is currently the main support base for German and Dutch forces operating with the ISAF in Afghanistan.

These satellite bases would be equipped with a level of support that would allow operations to take place if the main airbase were taken out of action.