There were no R.A.F. fighter squadrons on Bari airfield.

Anticipating delivery of medicines and yeast by plane, Granite City citizens formed an airfield committee and with the aid of quarrymen and the 172nd Infantry, Vermont National Guard, laid out runways on Wilson flat, high on Millstone Hill.

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.

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.

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.

The final cavalry charge by British Empire forces occurred on 21 March 1942 when a 60 strong patrol of the Burma Frontier Force encountered Japanese infantry near Toungoo airfield in central Burma.

In March 1971, US Naval construction battalions ( Seabees ) arrived on Diego Garcia to begin the construction of the Communications Station and an 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.

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.

One of these is centered on the northwest point of the atoll, another is found near the Point Marianne Cemetery on the southeast end of the airfield.

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.

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

The only aircraft operating on the airfield are PLA's Z-9 helicopters, which is the license-built version of the Eurocopter Dauphin.

In the little airfield in Tamchy village on Issyk Kul Lake's north shore

* The British in Freetown intercepted this message but, believing it might be a ruse de guerre, refused to credit it, yet still passed it on to the U. S. The Allies had gone to much effort to establish an airfield on Ascension as a link in their only air route between the United States and the Desert War in Egypt.

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

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

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.

But remember this -- it isn't the aircraft which is vulnerable to nuclear rockets, it is 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.

With the third-party funds, North created an organization called " The Enterprise " which served as the secret arm of the NSC staff and had its own airplanes, pilots, airfield, ship, operatives and secret Swiss bank accounts.

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.

* 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.

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.

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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol opened on September 16, 1916 as a military airfield, but only accepted civil aircraft from December 17, 1920, allowing Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia — which started operations in January 1920 — to claim to be one of the world's oldest continually operating commercial airports.

Part of runway maintenance is airfield rubber removal which helps maintain friction levels.

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 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.

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.

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 station badge for the nearby RAF Waddington depicts Lincoln Cathedral rising through the clouds, a sight which returning bomber crews used to help find their way back to Waddington's airfield.

Even before Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Air Corps leaders started to increasingly utilize the airfield, sending Boeing B-29 Superfortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers and Douglas B-18 Bolo which were used both for training and observation missions.

The airfield also acted as a separation center, which brought the base populace to a high of 11, 614 people in September 1945.

Strategic Air Command began deploying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.

In " aircraft mode " the vehicle will have STOL capabilities and be able to use almost any public use airfield.

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.

On July 1, 2005, the United States reportedly deployed troops and aircraft to the large military airfield of Mariscal Estigarribia as part of a bid to extend control of strategic interests in the Latin American sphere, particularly in Bolivia.

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.

An airbase, sometimes referred to as an air station or airfield, provides basing and support of military aircraft.

* Circuit ( airfield ), also called the pattern, a standard path followed by aircraft when taking off or landing

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

Samara is known for the production of aerospace launch vehicles, satellites and various space services, engines and cables, aircraft and rolled aluminum, block-module power stations ; refining, chemical and cryogenic products ; gas-pumping units ; bearings of different sizes, drilling bits ; automated electrical equipment ; airfield equipment ; truck-mounted cranes ; construction materials ; chocolates made by the Russia Chocolate Factory ; Rodnik vodka ; Vektor vodka ; Zhiguli beer ; food processing and light industrial products.

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

Former U. S. Marine Earskin J. Nabers claimed that while serving as a wireless operator on Saipan in 1944, he decoded a message from naval officials which said Earhart's aircraft had been found at the airfield in the village of As Lito, that he was later ordered to guard the aircraft, and then witnessed its destruction.

This practice airfield would allow pilots to simulate landings on an aircraft carrier.

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.

This practice airfield would allow pilots to simulate landings on an aircraft carrier.

Needing an airfield to test his aircraft he secured a site in Heathrow.

Kalkara are launched from the airfield and later recovered by parachute into the water and thence by boats maintained at HMAS Creswell, after target-towing exercises off the coast with ships or aircraft.

Following the war, the Kingman airfield served as one of the largest and best-known reclamation sites for obsolete military aircraft.

Although the original air station air traffic control tower is still standing, attached to one of the former Navy aircraft hangars, the airfield remains an uncontrolled facility.

The new airfield was dedicated on 31 May 1935 and named in honor of Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam, a distinguished aviation pioneer who was killed in an aircraft accident the previous November 5 when his Curtiss A-12 Shrike, 33-250, hit an obstruction during night landing practice on the unlighted field at Fort Crockett in Galveston, Texas and overturned.