aerodrome

lentokenttä, lentoasema An airfield:
puhekieltä Any area of land or water used for aircraft operation, regardless of facilities.
An airfield used for managed aircraft operation, either military or civilian, having such facilities as are necessary for operation.
1928 June 30, Kenya Gazette, http://books.google.com/books?id=XAbj5Prpk2sC&pg=PA862&dq=%22aerodrome%7Caerodromes%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=1VCmTsGGG-PumAX8wYywDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCTgKv=onepage&q=%22aerodrome%7Caerodromes%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false page 862,

Any person authorised by the Governor shall have the right of access at all reasonable times to any aerodrome other than a Royal Air Force aerodrome for the purpose of inspecting the aerodrome,(..).

Apart from these aerodromes where ATC services have been established, a number of aerodromes exist where ATC services are not provided. In such cases the establishment of ATC services may be required by the aerodrome operators.

The Langley and Maxim aerodromes, which did not soar, were in my opinion better pieces of mechanism than their very latest imitations.

An aerodrome, chiefly of steel, weighing, apart from fuel and water, about twenty-four pounds, was launched on the Potomac River on May 6, 1896, and flew for over half a mile.

This was apparently due to the weakness of the old Manley motor with which the aerodrome was originally equipped and which was capable of developing only 52 horsepower.

During the years 1892 and 1893 four steam-propelled aerodromes were constructed.