Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield.

UK production is now concentrated at Gaydon on the former RAF V-bomber airfield.

Also, the old airfield at Rabasa was closed and air traffic moved to the new El Altet Airport, which made a more convenient and modern facility for charter flights bringing tourists from northern European countries.

Nakagawa's defenses were based at Peleliu's highest point, Umurbrogol Mountain, a collection of hills and steep ridges located at the center of Peleliu overlooking a large portion of the island, including the crucial airfield.

In the early 1970s, setbacks to US military capabilities in the region including the fall of Saigon, victory of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the closure of the Peshawar Air Station listening post in Pakistan and Kagnew Station in Ethiopia, the Mayaguez incident, and the build-up of Soviet Naval presence in Aden and a Soviet Air Base at Berbera, Somalia, caused the US to request, and the UK to approve, permission to build a fleet anchorage and enlarged airfield on Diego Garcia, and the Seabees doubled the number of workers constructing these facilities.

Teaching and training at the School of Aviation ( LUSA ) takes place at an airfield next to the town of Ljungbyhed, about 40 km away from Lund.

A secret training airfield was established at Lipetsk in 1924 and operated for approximately nine years using mostly Dutch and Russian, but also some German, training aircraft before being closed in 1933.

After eight weeks of refresher flight training and qualification in the F9F Panther jet fighter at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, Williams was assigned to VMF-311, Marine Aircraft Group 33 ( MAG-33 ), based at the K-3 airfield in Pohang, South Korea.

Three American air force squadrons, including the 492nd, were based at the Parçay-Meslay airfield, their personnel playing an active part in the life of the city.

* June 5 – A female suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16.

Initially the internees were housed, with different paramilitary groups separated from each other, in Nissen huts at a disused RAF airfield that became the Long Kesh Detention Centre.

Almost immediately upon landing, the 48 SEALs came under withering fire from the PDF stationed at the airfield.

The most significant increase in values has been at Kaitoke, where the white sandy beaches ( Kaitoke and Medlands ), nearby hot springs, and the central location on the island, with the adjacent airfield, have allowed for a burgeoning vacation centre.

The USAAF airfield, Fort Bell ( later, US Air Force Base Kindley Field, and, later still, US Naval Air Station Bermuda ) was on St. David's Island, while the Naval Operations Base, a Naval Air Station for maritime patrol flying boats, ( which became the Naval Air Station Annex after US Naval air operations relocated to ) was at the western end of the island in the Great Sound.

In aviation terminology, the regional or local air pressure at mean sea level ( MSL ) is called the QNH or " altimeter setting ", and the pressure that will calibrate the altimeter to show the height above ground at a given airfield is called the QFE of the field.

As operations expanded, the small grass airfield at Lympne became increasingly inadequate.

After a brief period of training, an initial attempt at attacking a German airfield by parachute landing in support of Operation Crusader was disastrous.

The C10 turned over on take-off at the airfield in Yate and was taken to Hamble for repair at which time it was modified to incorporate an engine-driven rotor-starting device.

First experiments were held in 1937 on an Heinkel He 111, piloted by test-pilot Erich Warsitz at Neuhardenberg, a large field about 70 kilometres east of Berlin, listed as a reserve airfield in the event of war.

A paratroop detachment also dropped at the airfield of Aalborg which was crucial for the Luftwaffe for operations over Norway.

* A hoard of La Tène metalwork is found during the building of a military airfield in Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey.

On August 12, the airfield was named Henderson Field after Lofton R. Henderson, a Marine aviator who was killed during the Battle of Midway.

In 1955, the Air Force added a new 12, 000 x 300-ft all-weather runway to the airfield.

When he was 12, he visited a local airfield in Renner to see Charles Lindbergh on tour with his aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.

Meanwhile, 12 Falchi from 151 ° Gruppo of 53 ° Stormo attacked the airfield of Fayence, in Provence, causing little damage.

In spite of the failure of the airborne operation, U. S. 1st Infantry Division had taken Ponte Olivo on 12 July and continued north while U. S. 45th Infantry Division on their right had conformed to them and taken the airfield at Comiso and entered Ragusa to link with the Canadians.

This entire complex, along with the separate International Arrivals Terminal ( opened in 1976 ) located on the north side of the airfield ( off Pierson Drive ), became obsolete once the new Col. H. Weir Cook Terminal opened on November 12, 2008.

Although the original main runway 13 / 31 ( which is now 12 / 30 ) served the airport well, its alignment had the disadvantage of suffering from severe crosswinds and the other two minor runways were very short and could not be readily extended, so movements were transferred to a new runway ( 07 / 25 which has since become 06 / 24 ) in an addition completely outside the original airfield boundary.

The airfield was opened by Prince Andrew ( who served in the Falklands War ) on 12 May 1985, and became fully operational in 1986.

The terminal at the airport has 12 gates and is a pier finger lay out ; the passenger terminal is located centrally on the airfield and is almost parallel to the center of the runway.

The British airborne operations in North Africa started on 12 November, when the 3rd Battalion carried out the first battalion sized parachute drop, on Bone airfield between Algiers and Tunis.

The final Black Buck mission ( XM607 flown by Flight Lieutenant Martin Withers ) was against Argentine troop positions close to Stanley on 12 June, cratering the eastern end of the airfield and causing widespread damage to airfield stores and facilities.

It passes close to Kirton in Lindsey, home of RAF Kirton in Lindsey much used in World War II as a fighter airfield in 12 Group, now home to the Trent Valley Gliding Club.

A detachment of No. 219 Squadron RAF used the airfield between 4 October 1939 and 12 October 1940 when the main section of the squadron was at RAF Catterick flying the Bristol Blenheim IF.

* December 24 – A major U. S. airstrike against Munda airfield destroys four Mitsubishi A6M Zeroes in the air, 10 more on takeoff, and 12 waiting to take off.

* December 12 – The Cierva C. 6 autogyro makes the first cross-country flight by a rotary-wing aircraft, piloted by Captain Joaquín Loriga Taboada the 10. 5 km ( 7 statute miles ) from Cuatro Vientos airfield to Getafe, Spain, in eight minutes.

No 8 Squadron flew its first combat missions of the war on 12 June, when nine Blenheims bombed an airfield at Assab in Italian-occupied Eritrea, across the Red Sea from Aden, with 5 Vincents attacking the same airfield that night.

Most of the division was moved to Catania airfield starting 12 July 1943 to participate in the defense of the island.

After the Korsun airfield was abandoned on 12 February, deliveries were parachuted, and fuel drums and ammunition crates were dropped into snowbanks by the transports flying just above the deck.

The 12 FTW also operates an additional airfield for practice approaches and touch-and-go landings approximately 12 miles east-northeast of Randolph in Seguin, Texas.

The opening ceremony was on August 12, 1932 at Berlin-Staaken airfield.

After soloing in a Bristol Boxkite around the airfield at Point Cook, Victoria, Williams became the first student to graduate as a pilot, on 12 November 1914.