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The Ukrainian air force went to war with 43 flyable Su-25s, got an extra 18 airframes from Macedonia and Bulgaria and lost at least 20 of the jets in action, leaving at most 41 in service.—David Axe, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 There the Spruce Goose sat under 24-hour guard as a staff 300, reduced to 50 in 1962, kept the plane in flyable condition, even firing up the engines once a week until a special turning apparatus was invented.—David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024 Scaling up to this level while keeping our airplanes aerodynamic (and flyable) won’t be easy.—IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2024 The Ukrainian air force’s sole Su-24 unit, the 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade, went to war in February 2022 with just a dozen or so flyable jets.—David Axe, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for flyable
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