air station

noun

1. an airfield having facilities for sheltering and servicing aircraft.

air station

noun

1. an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft

Word History and Origins

Origin of air station¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

We were flying that day in late May 2021 out of an air station on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

From Popular-Science

In 2006, Griffith co-founded a kite-powered wind-energy company called Makani Power, based at an old naval air station in San Francisco Bay.

From Washington Post

The Coast Guard rescue pilot“It was a beautiful night here in Kodiak,” recalls Jared Carbajal, who pilots MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters for the Coast Guard out of an air station in Alaska.

From Popular-Science

The men toured the Fallon U.S. Naval Air Station in Nevada, where the real Top-Gun pilots train.

From The Daily Beast

The hangars and patrol planes of the Ford Island Naval Air Station spread across the center of the basin.

From The Daily Beast

And you were headquartered at the naval air station at Atsugi, Japan?

From Project Gutenberg

Roque charged madly into the air station, dragging the boys after him.

From Project Gutenberg

Again, among the best-known sites along the middle Rhine is the open-air station of Andernach.

From Project Gutenberg

Finally, we came across a mobile air-station on which were two aeroplanes with folded wings.

From Project Gutenberg

At Schussenreid, in Bavaria, was found an open air station of these people.

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