The airfield was also used during the 1980s by a number of privately operated aircraft of various types, and for several years it has also been the venue for the British National Model Aircraft Championships.

During its RN ownership the airfield had been used for a variety of groups, including the The Lee Bees Model Flying Club, The Tigers Children's Motorcycle Display Team and two flying schools, and a number of privately owned aircraft were based at the airfield.

The airfield is also used for the British Model Flying Association national championships.

Two years later, the United Kingdom obtained permission to reestablish its wartime airfield on Gan in the southernmost Addu Atoll.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the accident was caused by contaminated fuel obtained from the improper handling of the airfield ’ s fuel tanks and the pilot's improper actions after the power loss, as well as other factors.

Bradley Field was used by the First Air Force primarily as a group training airfield for single-engine P-47 Thunderbolt fighter groups, which obtained their new aircraft from the Republic Aviation production plant on Long Island prior to their deployment to overseas combat theaters.

During World War II, Geiger Field was a major training base by Second Air Force as a group training airfield for B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombardment units, with new aircraft being obtained from Boeing near Seattle.

Some of the material for backfilling the new M55 was obtained from a nearby disused airfield at RNAS Inskip, where the runways were broken up and the land returned to agriculture.

In 1966 permission was obtained to use the airfield as a drag racing complex, the ¾ of a mile main runway being used as the drag strip.

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.

** US Eighth Air Force inauspiciously flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British planes and bombs targets in the Netherlands, such as De Kooy airfield attached to Den Helder naval base.

Work began on the airfield immediately, mainly using captured Japanese equipment.

Test Pilot utilized authentic United States Army Air Corps ( USAAC ) airfield settings and was able to obtain rights to film using Boeing's new Y1B-17, which was destined to become the progenitor of the wartime B-17 bomber series.

The 509th operated Clovis AAF as a detachment from its Headquarters at Roswell AAF, New Mexico, using the airfield as a deployment facility for the group's B-29s.

During a four plane sortie by AT-6s flown from Luang Prabang's airfield during April 1961, Lieutenant Khampanh of the RLAF downed a Soviet Ilyushin Il-4 of its air bridge fleet, using unguided missiles to do so.

In addition, the airport has plans to reconfigure the roadway to improve traffic flow in front of the terminal ; an additional taxiway is also planned along with various other airfield projects using FAA airport improvement program funds.

However, a small RAF presence was retained for a few more months to help direct military transport aircraft using the airfield.

While using QFE is convenient while flying in the traffic circuit of an airfield, the most common procedure when flying ' cross country ' is to set the altimeter to either the local QNH or the standard pressure setting –.

If the airfield is not equipped with ATC or radio, the pilot will establish these things before arrival by contacting the airfield prior to departure, or by using weather forecasts and the like.

The main disadvantage to using the takeoff dolly / trolley and landing skid ( s ) system on German World War II aircraft, was that aircraft would likely be scattered all over a military airfield after they had landed from a mission, and would be unable to taxi on their own to an appropriately hidden " dispersal " location, which could easily leave them vulnerable to being shot up by attacking Allied fighters.

Lt. Patterson infiltrates the secret airfield outside Gotha where the fighter is held, cripples German aircraft production, fights and kills Sturmgeist, and escapes the airfield using the HO-IX.

Several subsequent attempts by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, using reinforcements delivered to Guadalcanal by ship, to recapture the airfield failed.

On 17 May 1944, after a grueling 65-mile march over the 6, 000-foot Kumon Mountain range ( using mules for carrying supplies ) to Myitkyina, approximately 1, 300 remaining Marauders, along with elements of the 42nd and 150th Chinese Infantry Regiments of the X Force, attacked the unsuspecting Japanese at the Myitkyina airfield.

The plan specifically mentions using the Azores as a transit airfield to reach the United States.

Since the Navy contemplated using the entire area available at Ford Island, plans for purchasing land adjacent to Pearl Harbor near Fort Kamehameha for construction of an airfield resulted in purchase by the U. S. Army on 20 February 1935 of this land from Faxon Bishop et al.

From 1999 until 2003, Shuttle America, a Connecticut-based regional airline operating for US Airways Express, operated scheduled service from the airfield, carrying more than 10, 000 passengers each month to airports in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania using De Havilland Dash 8 and Saab 340 aircraft.

There were also two other units using the airfield during the same period, these were:

Modifications to the airfield from 2002 onward as part of the Shearwater Heliport Conversion Project saw runways closed, eliminating the ability of fixed-wing aircraft to land at Shearwater, forcing the airshow to remove the static ( ground ) display component of the event, with the air show component continuing to be staged in the skies over Shearwater ( using the nearby Halifax Stanfield International Airport as the fixed-wing airfield ).

* 1 March – The first four Royal Navy pilots, Lieutenants Charles R. Samson, R. Gregory, and Arthur M. Longmore of the Royal Navy and Lieutenant E. L. Gerrard of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, report for flight training at Eastchurch airfield, using borrowed Short S. 27 aircraft.

From 1927, Rolls-Royce began using the airfield for flight tests.

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.

The US Army and the US Navy both began construction of air stations ( an airfield and a flying boat station, respectively ) in 1941, and the USA operated these bases until the end of the Cold War.

A local anecdote says that it was knocked off by a low flying aircraft from a nearby airfield in the Second World War.

Chronic sinusitis was to significantly affect Earhart's flying and activities in later life, and sometimes even on the airfield she was forced to wear a bandage on her cheek to cover a small drainage tube.

Earhart dubbed the twin engine monoplane airliner her " flying laboratory " and hangared it at Mantz's United Air Services located just across the airfield from Lockheed's Burbank, California plant in which it had been built.

However, by mid-1946, the airfield was placed on reduced operational status due to postwar funding cutbacks and decreased flying activities.

The airfield is still used today by 615 VGS ( Volunteer Gliding Squadron ) flying the Grob Viking glider.

On the 24th, 3 B-17's based at Del Monte bombed the airfield and shipping at Davao on the southeast coast of Mindanao before flying to Australia.

The Ockham Beacon at the East end of the airfield still serves as a navigation aid for aircraft flying over the area today.

The site remains an active airfield and is used by a number of civilian flying companies, and hosts regular air shows.

Assigned to control the flying organizations of the wing, although no operational flying squadrons were assigned at the time, its mission was to manage the Nellis airfield, operate the air traffic control tower, and the Nellis Air Traffic Control Facility providing radar service.

In November 1942, the Japanese built an airfield on Engebi Island ; because they used it only for refueling planes between Truk and islands to the east, no flying personnel were stationed there and the island had only token defenses.

In addition to the flying training, a Flexible Gunnery School was established at the airfield in November 1943.

The southern airfield is much larger with two paved runways and abuts the A17 road, this was first used as a flying training base in 1917.

When the pre-War airport, a flying boat facility on Darrell's Island, closed in 1948, Bermuda's air routes were taken over by land planes operating through the airfield, which by then was operated by the United States Air Force, as Kindley Air Force Base.

This involves positioning the aircraft so that it is flying across the direction of the runway and typically at 1000 feet above the circuit pattern for the airfield.

As a general aviation airfield, however, it attracted the record-breaking pilots of the Golden Age of Aviation because of its superior modern facilities and excellent location for flying, hosting dozens of " firsts " and time records as well as a number of air races in their hey-day, such as the Bendix Cup.

Budget cuts in the early 1930s affected personnel strength, airfield construction, pilot training, aircraft purchases and operational flying.

The Voe, the longest in Shetland, and partially sheltered by the island of Yell was used as a military airfield during World War II both by the Royal Air Force and the Norwegian Air Force as a location for flying boats.

The Hollywood and political elite often visited, usually flying into the estate's airfield or taking a private Hearst-owned train car from Los Angeles.

The 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment: Marina Raskova commanded this unit until her death in a flying accident, while leading two other Petlyakovs to their first operative airfield, near Stalingrad, whereupon the unit was given to Valentin Markov.