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Recent Examples of air base
Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
Russell Williams once led Canada’s largest air base and flew world leaders.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Max Saltman, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airbase in China that was photographed by a private American Earth-observation satellite.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The monitoring, conducted over the first three weeks of August, showed a rare deployment of a Beriev A-50U airborne early warning and control aircraft to Rogachevo air base on the southern island of the Arctic archipelago.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
Russell Williams once led Canada’s largest air base and flew world leaders.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
British authorities have had their eyes on the group since 2020, but its June 2025 action – when activists broke into Britain’s largest airbase, RAF Brize Norton, vandalizing two Airbus Voyager refueling planes – led to its proscription.
—Max Saltman, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airbase in China that was photographed by a private American Earth-observation satellite.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Air base.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20base. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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