page_title: Aerodrome
section_title: Air base
hierarchical_section_title: Aerodrome / Types / Air base
caption_attribution_description: An aerial view the hardened aircraft shelters of Hahn Air Base, Germany, prior to completion of "Project Tonedown", in which aircraft taxiways and runways were camouflaged according to U.S. Air Force Europe specifications, on 9 September 1977.
context_page_description: An aerodrome or airdrome is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither. Aerodromes include small general aviation airfields, large commercial airports, and military air bases.
  The term airport may imply a certain stature that not all aerodromes may have achieved. That means that all airports are aerodromes, but not all aerodromes are airports. Usage of the term "aerodrome" remains more common in Ireland and Commonwealth nations, and is conversely almost unknown in American English; with the term airport being almost exclusively applied.
  A water aerodrome is an area of open water used regularly by seaplanes, floatplanes or amphibious aircraft for landing and taking off.
  In formal terminology, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization, an aerodrome is "A defined area on land or water intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure, and surface movement of aircraft."
context_section_description: An air base is an aerodrome with significant facilities to support aircraft and crew. The term is usually reserved for military bases, but also applies to civil seaplane bases.
caption: Hahn Air Base, near Kirchberg, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Germany
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