air station

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noun

an airfield having facilities for sheltering and servicing aircraft.

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Origin of air station

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby air station

airspeed, airspeed indicator, air-spray, air sprayer, air spring, air station, airstream, air strike, airstrip, air-superiority, air switch

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How to use air station in a sentence

We were flying that day in late May 2021 out of an air station on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
What it’s like to rescue someone at sea from a Coast Guard helicopter|Rob Verger|July 20, 2021|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.
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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.
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The men toured the Fallon U.S. Naval Air Station in Nevada, where the real Top-Gun pilots train.
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The hangars and patrol planes of the Ford Island Naval Air Station spread across the center of the basin.
The Forgotten Crimes of Japan's Pearl Harbor Spy, Tadashi Morimura|Marc Wortman|December 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
And you were headquartered at the naval air station at Atsugi, Japan?
Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Roque charged madly into the air station, dragging the boys after him.
Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Germany|Horace Porter
Again, among the best-known sites along the middle Rhine is the open-air station of Andernach.
Men of the Old Stone Age|Henry Fairfield Osborn
Finally, we came across a mobile air-station on which were two aeroplanes with folded wings.
Some Naval Yarns|Mordaunt Hall
At Schussenreid, in Bavaria, was found an open air station of these people.
The Prehistoric World|E. A. Allen

British Dictionary definitions for air station

air station

noun

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

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