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There is one single airstrip and a helipad available to the base, which has four visits a year, according to COMNAP.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Sure, the MiGs can spread out across airstrips and highways and operate for as long as their ground crews can refuel, rearm and repair them.
—David Axe, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
After taking control of Greenland, Roosevelt instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to construct airstrips at the southern tip of Greenland—a feat that everyone had thought was impossible, Bo Lidegaard, a Danish historian and former diplomat, told me.
—Louise Bokkenheuser, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
There’s even a 20-acre, 18-basket Frisbee golf course, a greenhouse, a five-car garage, and plenty of space for your own airstrip.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Sure, the MiGs can spread out across airstrips and highways and operate for as long as their ground crews can refuel, rearm and repair them.
—David Axe, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
After taking control of Greenland, Roosevelt instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to construct airstrips at the southern tip of Greenland—a feat that everyone had thought was impossible, Bo Lidegaard, a Danish historian and former diplomat, told me.
—Louise Bokkenheuser, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
There’s even a 20-acre, 18-basket Frisbee golf course, a greenhouse, a five-car garage, and plenty of space for your own airstrip.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Airstrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airstrip. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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airstrip
noun
air·strip
-ˌstrip 
: a runway without normal air base or airport equipment
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