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  2. Meadows Field Airport - Wikipedia

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    Meadows Field (IATA: BFL, ICAO: KBFL, FAA LID: BFL) is a public airport in Kern County, California, United States, three miles northwest of downtown Bakersfield. [1] It is the main airport for the Bakersfield area, and one of two international airports in the San Joaquin Valley, the other Fresno Yosemite International Airport.

  3. Hamilton Field (Hamilton AFB) - Wikipedia

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    What would eventually become Hamilton Air Force Base has its origins in the late 1920s, when the airfield was first established. It was first unofficially named; the Marin County Air Field, Marin Airfield, Marin Meadows Air Field, and the Army Air Base at Marin Meadows. It was officially termed from 1929 until 1932 the "Air Corps Station, San ...

  4. Richard J. Meadows - Wikipedia

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    Richard James Meadows (June 16, 1931 – July 29, 1995) was a United States Army Special Forces officer who saw combat in Korea and Vietnam. He was a key figure in the Operation Eagle Claw in 1980, the rescue operation for the hostages of the Iran hostage crisis .

  5. List of defunct airports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Verdant Meadows Airfield, an airstrip based on Davis–Monthan Air Force Base and appearing in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Sandy Shores Airfield, an airfield based on Amboy Airfield and appearing in the video game Grand Theft Auto V

  6. de Havilland DH 108 - Wikipedia

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    The de Havilland DH 108 "Swallow" was a British experimental aircraft designed by John Carver Meadows Frost in October 1945. The DH 108 featured a tailless, swept wing with a single vertical stabilizer, similar to the layout of the wartime German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet.

  7. The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get - Wikipedia

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    The cover art for the album features a First World War era British Sopwith Snipe fighter plane, with fanciful coloration. Critical reception ... "Meadows" 4:36: 7 ...

  8. Calvada Meadows Airport - Wikipedia

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    Calvada Meadows airport has one runway (15/33), is 4081 x 48 feet and is made of asphalt. There is also one concrete helipad, 20 x 20 feet. For the 12 month period ending September 30, 2019, the airport had approximately 131 operations per week: 96% general aviation, 3% military and less than 1% air taxi.

  9. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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    A U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124C Globemaster II, 52-968, of the 28th Air Transport Squadron, [180] en route from Tachikawa Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan, to Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu, Hawaii with nine on board and 11 tons of cargo, disappears over the Pacific Ocean after making a fuel stop at Wake Island. Due at Hickam at 0539 hrs.