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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 (459 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • road runway is a type of road[2].
  • road runway is a type of runway[3].
  • road runway is part of road base[4].
  • road runway's Commons category is recorded as Road runway[5].
  • road runway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Highway strips[6].
  • road runway's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as aeroway=highway_strip[7].
  • road runway's partially coincident with is recorded as emergency landing site[8].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include road[2] and runway[3].

Use and Application

road runway is part of road base[4].

Why It Matters

road runway ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (459 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . 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
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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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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6617
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 11w ago · Militum professio scriniarii · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → road base
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → Q695850
    Part of → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q695850]]"
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