emergency airfield

Lighted emergency airfields were also funded along the route every 15-20 miles.

It is also a designated emergency airfield for commercial airliner cross-polar routes.

Sir lated post-strike recovery at an emergency airfield.

In September 1940 the Air Ministry decided that certain stations would be designated as emergency airfields.

It may have been used by the Luftwaffe as an emergency airfield, although no records have been located of a permanent base.

It is designated as an emergency airfield for cross-polar airline traffic between North America and Asia.

Originally opened in 1939, it was only an emergency airfield for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

This meant that RAF Brackley along with other emergency airfields attracted additional enemy night attacks.

Between 1946-1968 Debrecen Airport functioned also as an emergency airfield for Budapest Airport.

Very long range reconnaissance aircraft (primarily RB-29s) would use Frobisher as a refueling stop and as an emergency airfield.

Relief or emergency airfields were located at nearby RCAF Station Mount Pleasant and Wellington.

The plan was for the bombers to hit their targets and fly on across the China Sea to emergency airfields on the Chinese mainland, but none reached the fields.

Following the departure of the 394th, the airfield was used temporarily by the IX Troop Carrier Command as an emergency airfield beginning in September 1944.

Chulman is designated as one of several emergency airfields for commercial airline cross-polar routes or ETOPS 180/207 Diversion airport.

The purpose is to allow the plane, which has two engines, to fly the fastest route across the Pacific even when emergency airfields along the route are closed by bad weather.

It was operated by a single person and the field was one of a string of emergency airfields between Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. until 1938.

In April 1944, the land-based units moved forward to Kwajalein Airfield in the Marshall Islands, and shortly thereafter, Mullinix was reduced to an emergency airfield.

During the Berlin Blockade in 1948/49, Fritzlar Air Base served as radio beacon and emergency airfield on route back to Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.

Mallow Racecourse, now known as Cork Racecourse, became an emergency airfield on April 18, 1983, when a Mexican Gulfstream II business jet made a precautionary landing.

Wallgrove Aerodrome was a Royal Australian Air Force satellite and emergency airfield at Doonside, New South Wales, Australia during World War II.

By 1993 it was listed as a designated emergency airfield on a Jeppesen chart for airline use although this is no longer possible as the runway has various used car lots preventing use by planes.

Later it was decided to expand the airfield to allow it to be used as an emergency airfield by the Luftwaffe; the Luftwaffe took over the airfield in its entirety on 15 February 1935.

Deployed to South America in 1942-1943; mapping locations in British Guiana and Brazil for locations of emergency airfields as part of the development of the South Atlantic Transport Route.

He also organised aerial surveys around Daru and Milne Bay, developing new bases and emergency airfields at locales such as Bena Bena, Abau, Kulpi, and Port Moresby.

Its primary mission was to support Chemical Weapons testing in the Bushnell area and as an emergency airfield for the Army Air Force School of Applied Tactics fighter training school at Orlando Army Airbase.