airman

as in pilot
one who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft her father was an airman who was shot down in Vietnam

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Recent Examples of airman In total, the Arkansas National Guard will provide 27 airmen and 13 soldiers for the operation, will be deployed around the state with 18 being stationed in Little Rock, 10 in Fort Smith, 10 in Fayetteville and two at Camp Robinson in North Little Rock. Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2025 It was launched in 1938 as a precision timekeeping instrument for gloved airmen – hence the oversized crown and the pointer date function. Carol Besler, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Standing alongside armored Humvees, the unarmed soldiers and airman could be seen posing for pictures with tourists and talking with children. Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2025 Since then, soldiers and airmen along with smaller contingents from the Navy and Marine Corps have called the base home. Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for airman
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  • In late August 2025, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, pilot Kirt Stallings sat suited up and ready to go inside a transport vehicle, mere moments from boarding NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Air Line Pilots Association, the largest airline pilot’s union in the world, applauded the decision.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The aviator disappeared on July 2, 1937 while attempting to become the first woman to fly across the globe.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Running in parallel to the storylines of Piccard and Jones is the global race of the time where many prominent figures, from accomplished aviators to billionaire Richard Branson, were trying to become the first around-the-globe balloonists.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025

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