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air station

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air station
n
(Engineering / Aeronautics) an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft

In photogrammetry, the point in space occupied by the camera lens at the moment of exposure.
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Noun1.air station - a base for military aircraftair station - a base for military aircraft        
base, base of operations - installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"


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The location of the air station close, to Naval facilities, makes it ideally suited to support ship-borne helicopters of the Western Fleet as also their maintenance and training requirements.
The 926th is an Air Force Reserve unit under the 10th Air Force, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Fort Worth, Texas.
Capt Steven "Schaff" Schaffhouser, USAF Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
 
 
 
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