Sentence examples for aviation centre from inspiring English sources

Dayton has since become home to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, both a testing and a commercial aviation centre.

Just 13 - the Mercury 13 - were selected for further testing at the naval aviation centre in Pensacola, Florida.

It is also a national aviation centre, stemming from the establishment of experimental aviation laboratories during World Wars I and II and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (1946), with its modern aviation complex, Air Force Institute of Technology (1947), and museum (1935; moved to current site 1971).

Alastair McDermid, airports commission director for London Gatwick, pointed out that with the rise of Dubai as a global aviation centre, with plans to create a $32bn£19.5bnbn) second airport in the desert, London is used more as a destination than a hub by international travellers.

Such is its lasting impact, it was celebrated on Sunday with the first ever Spitfires, Merlins and Motors event at Duxford - the Imperial War Museum's aviation centre in Cambridgeshire.

An aviation centre was constructed at the airport in 1976, which included a 12-unit motel, flight training school, and aircraft overhaul shop; the latter is no longer maintained.

Oklahoma City has become one of the nation's foremost aviation centres, Tinker Air Force Base (a large logistics and communications base just southeast of the city) and the Federal Aviation Administration's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center for training in air safety and aviation technology being major installations.

In nearby Leysdown, on the Isle of Sheppey, one of the first aviation centres was built.

The University of Allahabad (1887) has a number of affiliated colleges, and there is an aviation training centre.

"The helicopter lost communication with aviation control centre a short time after it left Vientiane Capital with four crew members and 19 passengers on board," the report said.

Aviation's centre of gravity will also continue its gradual shift away from the sclerotic markets of Europe towards Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which, fed by a growing band of airline alliance members, are poised to welcome yet more millions of passengers.