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.

English Heritage ( in 2000 ) identified Kenley as " The most complete fighter airfield associated with the Battle of Britain to have survived ".

RAF Kenley was a strategic airfield in the Battle of Britain.

Kenley Common comprises fifty-six hectares of green open space surrounding the former Battle of Britain airfield.

English Heritage identified Kenley as the " most complete fighter airfield associated with the Battle of Britain to have survived ".

To the west are Kenley airfield, Kenley Common ( City of London owned ) Coxes Wood and Blize Wood.

McCalla Field is now listed as a closed airfield.

Camp Justice is now located on the grounds of the former airfield.

The former Westland site at the now unused airfield in Weston-super-Mare houses The Helicopter Museum featuring a number of examples of Westland aircraft.

Constructed of a large square of thick, reinforced concrete, most of the airfield is now a civil airport operated by Glenn County.

The air station is now a private airfield known as Reynolds Airpark ( FAA airfield identifier: FL60 ) with a single 5000 ft asphalt runway currently operational, although reportedly in poor condition.

In May 1941 the site again became an airfield for military primary flight training, operated by the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute ( now Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ).

The airfield which was the cause of the fighting in 1942, and which became well known as Henderson Field is now the international airport for the Solomon Islands.

Part of the airport has now been developed into Marlboro Memorial Cemetery which now borders the defunct airfield.

PARC is now operated by the Plattsburgh Air Base Development Authority and the massive airfield is now Plattsburgh International Airport.

The restored control tower of the former World War II airfield is now a listed building.

This airfield now serves as City-County Airport.

A former military airfield in the municipality serves now as a civilian airport called Stockholm-Skavsta Airport.

It is now a private airfield.

Remnants of the Navy remain, such as the disused airfield near Evanton ( now an industrial estate ) which was built to take aircraft from the fleet carriers while they were at anchor.

The military use of the airfield is now much reduced.

Mallow Racecourse, now known as Cork Racecourse, became an emergency airfield on April 18, 1983, when a Mexican Gulfstream II business jet piloted by Captain Reuben Ocaña made a precautionary landing.

The first, in 1976, was a historic airfield in Cambridgeshire now referred to as IWM Duxford.

It is a back entrance to RAF Welford, a Second World War airfield and now an RAF / USAF military installation mainly used for storing munitions.

At the eastern side of the airfield the old runways and link roads of East Fortune airfield are now used as a motorcycle race track run by the Melville Motorcycle Club.