page_title: Aerodrome
section_title: Airstrip
hierarchical_section_title: Aerodrome / Types / Airstrip
caption_attribution_description: English: Private airstrip at Knettishall. Access to this airstrip is via a track from Norwich Lane.
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 airstrip is a small aerodrome that consists only of a runway with perhaps fueling equipment. They are generally in remote locations. Many airstrips (now mostly abandoned) were built on the hundreds of islands in the Pacific Ocean during Second World War. A few airstrips grew to become full-fledged airbases as strategic or economic importance of a region increased over time.
  An Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) was a temporary airstrip used by the Allies in the run-up to and during the invasion of Normandy, and these were built both in Britain, and on the continent.
caption: A private airstrip at what used to be RAF Knettishall
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