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road runway

section of existing road, highway, or motorway, that is specially built (or adapted) to allow take-off and landing of (primarily) military aircraft in times of emergency resulting from damage to nearby permanent airbase runway
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road runway

Summary

road runway ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (121 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • road runway's image is recorded as Thunderbold II A10 landing on autobahn 1984 DoD DF-ST-84-09440.jpg[2].
  • road runway's subclass of is recorded as road[3].
  • road runway's subclass of is recorded as runway[4].
  • road runway's part of is recorded as road base[5].
  • road runway's Commons category is recorded as Road runway[6].
  • road runway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05szmdz[7].
  • road runway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Highway strips[8].
  • road runway's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as aeroway=highway_strip[9].
  • road runway's partially coincident with is recorded as emergency landing site[10].

Why It Matters

road runway ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (121 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). road runway. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/road-runway
MLA “road runway.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/road-runway.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_road-runway_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{road runway}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/road-runway}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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