The nearest private airfield is in Taunton ; the nearest regional airport is in New Bedford, and the nearest national and international airport is T. F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island.

A general aviation airfield, Mallory Airport, is located off of Chestnut Street, approximately two miles south of U. S. Route 60, with the nearest commercial aviation service being at Yeager Airport in Charleston.

After activating an automatic fire extinguisher and opening the cabin's fresh air inlets, Rank said that he returned to the cockpit where Ferguson was already asking traffic controllers for directions to the nearest airfield.

The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport and there is a private airfield 3 miles ( 5 km ) south east of the town at Northrepps Aerodrome.

The nearest public airfield is in Chatham ( Chatham Municipal, CQX ); the nearest regional airport is Barnstable Municipal Airport ( HYA ), and the nearest national and international air service is at Logan International Airport in Boston.

The nearest commercially operating airport is Humberside Airport, another former RAF airfield.

TWA was awarded the first ETOPS rating in May 1985 for the Boeing 767 service between St. Louis and Frankfurt, allowing TWA to fly its aircraft up to 90 minutes away from the nearest airfield: this was later extended to 120 minutes after a federal evaluation of the airline's operating procedures.

While a platoon of C Company situated northwest of the airfield, nearest the sea, was able to repel German attacks along the beach, attacks across the Tavronitis bridge by Fallschirmjäger were able to overwhelm weaker positions and take the Royal Air Force camp.

This leaves Lee-on-Solent as the only airfield in southern Hampshire with a hard runway available for general aviation ; the nearest alternative in Hampshire being Farnborough Airfield.

Bantry has its own small privately owned airfield called Bantry Aerodrome, though the nearest large international airport is Cork Airport.

Bombers based at Sola had a round trip of about 600 miles to Rattray Head in north-east Scotland, instead of a round trip of over 1000 miles from the nearest airfield on German soil, on the island of Sylt, and the east of Scotland and coastal shipping suffered from bombing raids, most from Norway, until 1943.

He telephones the nearest airfield, RAF Hucknall, and cons the duty officer into sending a car.

The Pundit Code was also painted on the airfield hangar nearest to the control tower, and remained visible until the hangars were demolished in 2001.

The nearest airfield is Bluefields Airport.

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

* MPA Falklands Memoirs 1983-1986 Memoirs of the construction of the airfield at Mount Pleasant.

A detachment was provided for the defence of the Falklands in August 1982, after the Falklands War, and following repairs to the airfield at Stanley.

* Argentina purchased 4 Roland shelter-mounted systems for static defense of fixed installations and one of these was deployed to defend Stanley airfield during the Falklands War with Britain in 1982.

Hawker Hurricane | Hurricanes and Spitfire s of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the Duxford Air Show, May 2007. Duxford remains an active airfield and maintains two parallel runways ; an unpaved 880 m grass strip, and a concrete runway with a usable length of 1199 m, both oriented at 060 / 240-degrees.

He managed to maneuver the missile to a landing speed of 200 m.p.h. -- fast even for a modern jet plane touchdown -- and banked into the 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.

* Banda Neira, or Naira, the island with the administrative capital and a small airfield ( as well as accommodation for visitors ).

Other COMPSRON 2 ships offloaded the munitions, bombs, and fuel on Diego Garcia that were required for the US bomber fleet that deployed to airfield.

Dependents traveled to the airfield for flights to the United States, or to ports for passage aboard evacuation ships.

Shek Kong Airfield, located near Yuen Long, is a military airfield for the People's Liberation Army, which is of limited operating capabilities due to surrounding terrains.

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.

The Japanese troops built an airfield on Nauru which was bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943, preventing food supplies from being flown to Nauru.

Then the tough battle for Guadalcanal, which was centred on the capture of the airfield, Henderson field, led to the development of the adjacent town of Honiara as the United States logistics centre.

There is also a small airfield name Camdem Airfield in Couva, which is mainly used for cropdusting planes.

* 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.

Air safety is an important concern in the operation of an airport, and almost every airfield includes equipment and procedures for handling emergency situations.

Airport crash tender crews are equipped for dealing with airfield accidents, crew and passenger extractions, and the hazards of highly flammable aviation fuel.

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 terms of the base rights granted for Bermuda also included that the airfield constructed by the US would be used jointly with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).

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.

Facilities include laboratories and workshops for structural tests and a wind and a water tunnel in addition to an airfield for flight test activities.

The airfield served only secondary duties after 1927, as its runway was not long enough for heavily loaded aircraft.

The home stadium for the University of Connecticut Huskies football team, Rentschler Field, is located adjacent to Pratt & Whitney's East Hartford, Connecticut campus, on Pratt's company-owned former airfield of the same name.

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.

The airfield there also serves as a second national hub for international flights.

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