Sentence examples for initial airstrip from inspiring English sources

An initial airstrip designed for 50 passenger planes will later be expanded into an almost 10,000-foot-long runway able to land the new A380 Airbus, the world's largest commercial aircraft with a maximum capacity of 853 passengers.

Initial assessments found the airstrip sustained "minor to light" damage, and is open to medical emergency aircraft but not public flights.

"Initial reports are the airstrip is still intact but covered with debris," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.

Initial construction of the airstrip north of the town of Jackson was completed in the 1930s.

All airstrips on the island were rendered inoperable, hampering initial relief efforts.

In the initial assault, they tried to overrun the South Vietnamese regimental compound located at the south end of the airstrip.

At the War Department's suggestion, an initial reconnaissance of Amchitka was carried out in September 1942, which found that it would be difficult to build an airstrip on the island.

There is the airstrip.

We passed a small airstrip.

Initial plans call for about 1,000 soldiers from the 101st to secure Kandahar airport, guard hundreds of Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners and protect the airstrip for cargo planes carrying food, medicine and military supplies.

There is an airstrip at Gjoa Haven.