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Recent Examples of jetportThe airstrip was intended in the 1960s for a massive jetport that, with its access corridors east and west, would have trashed Florida’s greatest natural resource, the Everglades.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 May 2026 Construction on a huge jetport had begun, but Stoneman Douglas and others were able to stop it after just one runway was built in the fragile wetlands.—
Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025 Somewhere in the jetport controvert, Nixon took a liking to Reed and appointed him assistant secretary of the Interior.—
Alex Harris,
miamiherald,
11 July 2018
The airport says arrivals to Denver are also delayed an average of 15 minutes and increasing due to the weather.
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Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
1 Aug. 2026
This matching set from Amazon does exactly that, featuring a flattering high neckline and breezy cropped pants that are polished enough to wear straight from the airport to your destination.
The two-acre facility, owned by the city and operated by Downtown Skyport, is the busiest commercial heliport in the world, hosting up to 200 flights a day.
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Anne Kadet,
Curbed,
19 June 2026
An example of an inherently objectionable use might be a heliport in a heavily residential municipality.
The ministry earlier said the pilots of the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, which can carry 12 passengers, notified the control tower at Nazca airfield of the emergency, in the aircraft’s final radio transmission.
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Gonzalo Zegarra,
CNN Money,
2 Aug. 2026
While the surrounding airfield dates back to the 1930s, when it was used as a military base by the Luftwaffe, the dome itself was built in 1999 by the CargoLifter transport company.
Iranian forces targeted military infrastructure at an air base in Kuwait, according to state media on Friday.
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Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
31 July 2026
But that proximity worked to Cyprus’ detriment last March when a Shaheed drone that officials said was launched from Lebanon struck an aircraft hangar at a British air base on the island’s southern coast.
The former often requires irregular cargo like radar systems, missile launchers, helicopters, engineering gear, bridge-laying equipment, etc, delivered to areas with no existing aerodromes.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
5 July 2026
Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP via Getty Images The aircraft, registered in Germany, crashed in a grassy area near the runway of the Nancy-Essey aerodrome, close to a residential area and two roads, an AFP journalist reported.