The phrase "airforce plane" is not correct in standard written English; it should be "air force plane." You can use it when referring to an aircraft that is part of a country's air force.
Example: "The air force plane conducted a flyover during the national celebration."
Alternatives: "military aircraft" or "air force aircraft."
The same day, and again on Wednesday, airforce planes supported by naval artillery pulverised rebel positions near the northern port of Trincomalee.
"She did a lot of MoD stories for me, the army getting new equipment, arguments about airforce planes, that kind of thing.
One week on from a dispute in South Sudan's presidential guard that escalated into street fighting in the capital and accusations of a coup, thousands of foreign nationals have crowded the airport to escape with RAF flights and US airforce transport planes, while oil companies scramble to evacuate personnel.
For months the US airforce and RAF planes have been heavily involved in air strikes and reconnaissance missions across Iraq that are credited with helping slow the advance of Isis fighters and have now paved the way for ground operations.
According to the Norwegian defence ministry, the country's F16 fighter planes at Bodo airforce base on the north-western coast scrambled 49 times in 2014 in response to Russian warplanes flying close to Norwegian airspace, and identified 74 different military aircraft, a 27% increase from 2013.
Libya Dawn's "airforce" is limited at best and contains only a handful of operational planes, mostly old and Russian.
No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened outside business hours, the Swiss airforce said.
NG: That was the Russian airforce?
The French responded by destroying the small Ivorian airforce.
The U.S. AirForce has 1200 DC-3s in active service.
