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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 Riga airport said on Sunday morning that flights could be delayed or rerouted because of the severe storm overnight.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Aug. 2026
Courtesy Alana Calloway Her body was found in a drainage ditch near a parking structure Thursday after someone called to report a body near the airport, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.
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 community will also include a bilingual K-12 private school, a 24-hour medical and wellness center, an organic farm, a private airfield, beach clubs, a racquet and field club, an equestrian center, and two championship golf courses.
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Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2026
As the race has evolved, so have the security measures required to put more than 1,600 runners onto the airfield of one of the nation’s busiest airports.
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.