Airstrip meaning

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An aircraft runway without airport facilities.
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A hard-surfaced area, as at an airhead, adapted for use as a temporary airplane runway.
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An aircraft landing field, usually with only one runway and basic facilities.

The outfitter deposited us at a small airstrip out in the bush, promising to pick us up again in a week's time.

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Airstrip Sentence Examples

  • We shall see the plane landing on the beach - the island's famous airstrip.

  • In June 1942 the Japanese began building an airstrip on this plain.

  • Your ' avi page ' mentions a Porsche using the airstrip for a private practice.

  • The village had an airstrip which in the past had been used regularly by the Missionary air service.

  • This was noted to be a shanty town with an airstrip.

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