flight line

noun

: a parking and servicing area for airplanes

Examples of flight line in a Sentence

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United States Air Force F-22 fighter jets taxi on the flight line during Exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025 in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, on July 17, 2025. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025 The flight line at the museum includes an RF-86 Sabre, a TA 4-J Skyhawk, a F-105 Thunderchief, a T-39 Sabre Liner, a F-4B Phantom II, an A-7 Corsair II and two UH-1 Huey helicopters. David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025 Rangers down on the flight line, standing tall and looking fine, the engines and turbines are starting to whine, so early in the morning. Arkansas Online, 26 May 2025 Like his memories of U.S. cargo planes loading passengers in the dark, since the North Vietnamese had begun bombing the flight line. Jennifer Brookland, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flight line

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of flight line was in 1943

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“Flight line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20line. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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