How to Use aircraft in a Sentence

aircraft

noun

• The weapons can be dropped from aircraft or fired from the ground.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• The aircraft took to the skies for its first commercial flight last May.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• The report says the aircraft was shut down and chips were discovered in the gear box.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
• The missing panel was on the underside of the aircraft where the wing meets the body and just next to the landing gear, United said.
  — Claire Rush, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
• He was not poisoned with a weapons-grade toxin or found in the wreckage of an aircraft that plunged from the sky.
  — Greg Miller, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• Firearms are transported in the belly of the aircraft so that nobody has access to them during the flight.
  — Daily Times, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• The aircraft is designed to fly 20-mile back-to-back trips, with 10-minute charging sessions in between.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2023
• Their post included an image of the vintage aircraft turned over with its wheels up in a grassy field.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2023
• All five service members on board the aircraft were determined to have died.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2023
• However, the aircraft had to peel off because someone was flying a drone over the site, Pascua said.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Footage showed water splashing into the air as the single engine aircraft made contact with the waves and appeared to flip over.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
• The aircraft made their second appearance at the Vietnam Airshow this week.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Israeli troops have been closing in on the camp from the north, unleashing devastating strikes on the area from aircraft and naval boats.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• Wreckage from the aircraft was found upside down in the water, and a woman’s body was discovered nearby.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• According to the airline, the panel is on the underside of the aircraft, where the wing meets the aircraft body just adjacent to where the landing gear deploys.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
• Combat forces hit Hamas cells overnight, the IDF said, and directed aircraft toward targets.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• His office promptly tweeted that the noise came from a military aircraft.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2023
• The Pentagon has moved warships and aircraft to the region to be ready to provide Israel with assistance.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
• The lost sub, with as much room inside as a minivan, was the focus of both the U.S. and Canadian coast guards, which deployed aircraft, boats and sonar equipment to locate the Titan.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
• According to a tweet from Cal Fire, the aircraft went down in a field and caused a fire that burned about an acre of vegetation before being contained.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 9 July 2023
• Beijing calls the aircraft its first large homegrown passenger jet.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 2 June 2023
• The aircraft was first floated to a position adjacent to the runway before being lifted, piece by piece, up and out of the water.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2023
• Currently, most airlines detail the type of aircraft that flights will be using during the booking process.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
• Moments later, a crew member can be seen on the aircraft's front camera running from right to left, presumably running to the drone's kill switch.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
• Sometimes metal chips will break loose in the box, threatening the aircraft’s ability to keep flying.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
• For four minutes, the moon completely obscured the sun, casting the aircraft and the clouds below into near-total darkness.
  — K.c. Alfred, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
• The aircraft crashed into wooded terrain, descending through an opening in the tree canopy, according to the report.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 5 June 2023
• These travelers can board the aircraft in Group 5 ahead of other Main Cabin passengers.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2023
• Initial reports indicate that one of the aircraft’s tires blew upon landing and components of the landing gear were hot.
  — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• Your travel agent can get you a flight on this experimental aircraft.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024