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"airfield" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often drome (5 letters).
Definitions
a place where planes take off and land
Word origin
From air + field.
Used in a sentence
“Taiwanese war planes are parked on a highway during an annual exercise to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on Taiwan's airfields in Changhua in southern Taiwan.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Plane strip”8 letters
02“Plane landing site”8 letters
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