During the actions in the October of that year the Company was employed on convoy escort tasks, airfield defense, fighting reconnaissance patrols and screening operations.

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.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

In 1953 the first airfield in the Cayman Islands was opened as well as the George Town Public hospital.

At the time the NAVCOMMSTA was the primary tenant, but as the new major facilities were completed, most notably the expanded anchorage and mooring area and the extended airfield, other tenants were commissioned.

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.

This was a secret airfield and its loss would have shut off the critically needed supply of medium bombers to British forces in Egypt and to the Soviet forces in Russia.

Captain Richardson's squadron of P-39s and five B-25 Mitchell bombers was assigned to protect the airfield.

The airfield was declared operational on 3 September and designated as " A-35 ".

It was used by several American fighter and transport units until late November when the airfield was closed.

Adding to the problems was the British decision in 1975 to close its airfield on Gan in line with its new policy of abandoning defense commitments east of the Suez Canal.

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.

After Sampson AFB closed, the airfield remained as Seneca Army Airfield but was closed in 2000.

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.

After it was repaired, Williams flew his plane back to his Marine Corps airfield.

Task Unit Papa was tasked with the seizure of Paitilla airfield and the destruction of Noriega's plane there.

Several SEALs were concerned about the nature of the mission assigned to them being that airfield seizure was usually the domain of the Army Rangers.

The wartime airfield became Nassau's international airport in 1957 and helped spur the growth of mass tourism, which accelerated after Havana was closed to American tourists in 1961.

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.

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 ).

The plan was to provoke a German reaction by laying mines in Norwegian waters, and once Germany showed signs of taking action UK troops would occupy Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen and launch a raid on Stavanger to destroy Sola airfield.

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

The 11, 000 Marines on Guadalcanal initially concentrated on forming a loose defensive perimeter around Lunga Point and the airfield, moving the landed supplies within the perimeter, and finishing the airfield.

* 1946: Gatwick Airport was officially decommissioned, but the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation continued to operate it as a civil airfield, initially for a six-month trial period.

RAF Spitalgate trained pilots during both world wars, initially as a Royal Flying Corps establishment, being the first military airfield in Lincolnshire.

The airfield was then brought back into service as RAF East Fortune, initially a training airfield, and the hospital patients were transferred to Bangour Hospital in West Lothian.

They were initially based at a British airfield in Toungoo for training while their aircraft were assembled and test flown by CAMCO personnel at Mingaladon airport outside Rangoon.

It was initially founded by Lieutenant Colonel Miller, who needed an airfield to operate his postal service between the city and Cape Town.

An airport was first built in the town of Hongqiao in the west of Shanghai in 1907, initially as a small military airfield.

From 1943 until Bahrain's independence in December 1971, the Royal Air Force maintained a military installation at the airfield known initially as RAF Bahrain and from 1963 as RAF Muharraq.

The airfield, then known as Scottow Aerodrome, was initially built as a bomber base, on land near Scottow Hall.

Following the war, the station became a night fighter base, equipped initially with Mosquito and then with Meteor and Javelin aircraft before becoming a Training Command airfield in 1961.

The airfield itself was initially a grass landing area although the RAF always planned to lay hard runways.

Twelfth Air Force initially assigned the 324th Fighter Group to the airfield on 2 September, with P-47 Thunderbolts.

Opened as a civilian airfield in 1933, it was requisitioned at the outbreak of World War II and named RAF Trebelzue, initially as a satellite of nearby RAF St Eval, but was expanded with twin concrete runways.

Kadena airfield was initially under the control of Seventh Air Force, however on July 16, 1945, Headquarters Eighth Air Force was transferred, without personnel, equipment, or combat elements to the town of Sakugawa, near Kadena from RAF High Wycombe England.

It opened in 1935 and was initially used for military purposes during World War II, before Barrow council purchased the airfield.

The activation of the new airfield in late 1952 allowed the 330th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron to be activated at Stewart AFB on 22 November, initially equipped with F-80C Shooting Stars.

In 1936 / 7 the Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques de l ' Ouest opened an aircraft factory adjacent to the airfield, initially building MB. 210 bombers, followed by M. S. 406 fighters and LeO 45 bombers.

Suttons Farm airfield became operational on 3 October 1915, initially with two BE2c aircraft.