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unusual facts about Military airbase


Inuit

The construction of air bases and the Distant Early Warning Line in the 1940s and 1950s brought more intensive contacts with European society, particularly in the form of public education, which traditionalists complained instilled foreign values disdainful of the traditional structure of Inuit society.


Dollyar Air Base

Dollyar Air Base is a military airbase in Dollyar (also known as Dəllər or Dəlilər), a municipality of the Shamkir district (rayon) in Azerbaijan.


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Achmad Yani International Airport

It used to be a military airbase owned by the TNI (Armed Forces of Indonesia) until 1966 when the airport was declared open for domestic commercial flights, other than as an airbase for the Indonesian Army.

Bosanska Krajina

Željava Air Base, situated on the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina under Plješevica Mountain, near the town of Bihać in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the largest underground airport and military airbase in the former Yugoslavia and one of the largest in Europe.

Charles Jost Burchell

The mission remained following the war in order to deal with the withdrawal of American troops, negotiate a 99 year lease for a Canadian military airbase at Goose Bay and, ultimately, to negotiate Newfoundland's entry into Canadian Confederation following the 1948 Newfoundland referendums.

Force majeure

An example would be the Hainan Island incident where a U.S. Navy aircraft landed at a Chinese military airbase after a collision with a Chinese fighter in April 2001.