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There is a small airfield located in Domagnano right next to the border ; there is also an international heliport located in Borgo Maggiore.
Task Unit Papa was tasked with the seizure of Paitilla airfield and the destruction of Noriega's plane there.
Unexplained lights were seen in the sky close to RAF Woodbridge, a United States Airforce airfield, and there were claims that a UFO had landed in the forest.
The Japanese attacked the airfield to prevent the numerous planes there from getting airborne and engaging them.
In 1919 an early municipal airfield was carved out, later named Felts Field in honor of Herald owner Buell Felts who died in a plane crash there.
Operating from there and the nearby airfield at Telscombe Cliffs, it was equipped with Short Type 184 seaplanes and carried out anti-submarine patrols over the English Channel until the end of the First World War.
During the First World War, there was a Royal Flying Corps airfield near to Drome Road.
The Hawker Aircraft Company bought Parlaunt Farm at Langley in 1938 and built a major factory and airfield there.
During World War I Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray donated a portion of his land to the Crown, which built an airfield there in 1917 as a base for the Royal Naval Air Service.
During the Second World War there was an RAF airfield at RAF Chedworth.
From 1943-1944, there were nearly daily bombing raids from Russia on Berlevåg and the German airfield.
As there are absolutely no trees in Berlevåg, many of the houses in Berlevåg were built by the help of the wooden planks in the " tarmac " of the previous German airfield.
Aircraft were built there, and flown from the company's adjacent airfield, known as Cricklewood Aerodrome, which was also used by Handley Page Transport.
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.
During the construction of the airfield, there were no services or facilities.
By the time of the Pearl Harbor Attack and the United States entry into World War II, there were 10 AT-6 Texan advanced flight trainers and 17 Martin B-10 bombers at the airfield.
Australia did not commit combat aircraft to the 1991 Gulf War, and although a small detachment of Hornets was deployed to Diego Garcia during the Afghanistan campaign to provide airfield defence for the joint United States-United Kingdom military facility present there, this was not a true combat role, however, but simply a precaution against possible suicide attacks by hijacked civil aircraft.
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.
Until around 1950 the airline terminal was at 42. 367N 71. 0275W ; on the 1946 topo map the airfield extended less than 5000 ft east from there ( the east end of the field was at 42. 361N 71. 012W NAD83 ).
Although Hamble airfield closed in 1986, BAe continued to use the premises there for the production of major assemblies for Harrier and Hawk jets.
Heavy air operations were also conducted in May against the small island of Pantelleria, some south-west of Sicily and north-west of Malta, to prevent the airfield there being used in support of Axis troops attempting to withdraw from North Africa.
During World War II, there was an RAF airfield here.
Because of their isolation and difficulty of access, there are no human settlements on these islands, but a detachment of the Chilean Navy is stationed on Isla San Félix, which also hosts a runway ( ICAO code for the airfield: SCFX ).
The airfield was part of No. 25 Group RAF, North West Area, with No. 272 Squadron RAF stationed there.

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The airfield also has a small commercial terminal handling scheduled and chartered passenger flights from the other islands in the Azores, Europe, Africa, and North America.
There are also several man-made fresh-water ponds resulting from excavations made during construction of the airfield and road on the western half of the atoll rim.
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.
A small airfield is also nearby.
There is also a small airfield name Camdem Airfield in Couva, which is mainly used for cropdusting planes.
The terms aerodrome, airfield, and airstrip may also be used to refer to airports, and the terms heliport, seaplane base, and STOLport refer to airports dedicated exclusively to helicopters, seaplanes, or short take-off and landing aircraft.
* Circuit ( airfield ), also called the pattern, a standard path followed by aircraft when taking off or landing
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 ).
It was also strategically important to France, which maintained an important naval base and coaling station in its harbor and which integrated it into its earliest air force and airmail circuits, most notably with the legendary Mermoz airfield ( no longer extant ).
A paratroop detachment also dropped at the airfield of Aalborg which was crucial for the Luftwaffe for operations over Norway.
The city has a main railway station ( Zwickau-Hbf ) and is also reachable via a public airfield which takes light aircraft.
The airfield also acted as a separation center, which brought the base populace to a high of 11, 614 people in September 1945.
Taft was also the site of a military airfield named Gardner Field which was used to train pilots during World War II.
Kingsford Smith, in his plane, the Southern Cross, also used the airfield on his historic flights across the Pacific.
( Note: The Machesney Elementary School across from where the airport was also got named after Fred Machesney's airport ) The airfield was Rockford's main airport until the 1950s, when the Greater Rockford airport came on line.
Schroon also has an airfield with a runway that is capable of landing small and medium size private airplanes.
A party was also active from mid 1980th to mid 1990th with only one purpose to prevent the exploitation of the small airfield, F18, in Tullinge to become a commercial airport in the 1980s.
The Flugebyn airfield, home of the Västergötland Skydiving Club ( Västergötlands Fallskärmsklubb ) also lies in the municipality.
Several ferries provide regular transport for most travelers ; the island also features a number of marinas, as well as a small airfield for private planes.
On 20 September 2006, the airfield also played host to television's Richard Hammond and his near-fatal drive in the Vampire Dragster ; contrary to some reports at the time, this was not an attempt at the British land speed record.
The island was also the site of a small military airfield, as part of the defense.
It also hosts a Belgian military airfield which formerly flew F-16 Fighting Falcon jets.
On 4 April 1961, President Kennedy then approved the Bay of Pigs plan ( also known as Operation Zapata ), because it had an airfield that would not need to be extended to handle bomber operations, it was farther away from large groups of civilians than the Trinidad plan, and it was less " noisy " militarily, which would make any future denial of direct US involvement more plausible.

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