Airport facts for kids
An airport is a place where airplanes can land or take off. Most airports in the world have only a long strip of level ground called a runway. Many airports have buildings which are used to hold airplanes and passengers. A building that holds passengers waiting for their planes or luggage is called a terminal. The sections between planes and the terminal are called "gates". Airports also have buildings called hangars to hold planes when they are not used. Some airports have buildings to control the airport, like a control tower which tells planes where to go.
An international airport is a large airport that airplanes can use to fly to and from other countries. A domestic airport is an airport which is usually smaller and only has airplanes coming from different places in the same country. Most international airports have shops and restaurants for airplane passengers to use.
An airport used by the military is often called an air force base or airbase. An aircraft carrier is a floating airbase.
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Safety
Airports are made and operated for safety. Today, people must walk through a metal detector, a machine that can tell if metal goes through it. If it makes a noise, the officers will make that person take off all things on them that are metal. They also have X-ray machines that can look into luggage. If officers find items such as weapons, or anything that can be used to kill people, that item (and the person who has it) are taken away and possibly arrested. As well as this, passengers are not allowed to bring bottles or containers with over 100 ml of liquid onto the plane because they could be turned into bombs. Therefore, all water bottles must be emptied before entering the secured area.
Related pages
- Float Incorporated (developers of floating airports and Pneumatic Stabilized Platform (PSP))
Images for kids
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Sample infrastructure of a typical airport. Larger airports usually contain more runways and terminals.
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Airport distribution as of 2008
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Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport
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Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport (DXB)
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Solar panels at Cochin International Airport, India, the world's first airport to be fully powered by solar energy.
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Commercial jets wait for the "7am hold" to pass before departing from John Wayne Airport in Orange County (Santa Ana), California, on February 14, 2015
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Air bridges at Oslo Gardermoen Airport captured from an Icelandair Boeing 757-200
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The Berlin Brandenburg Airport is publicly financed by the states of Berlin and Brandenburg and the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Helsinki–Vantaa Airport's security clearance gates
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Terminal 2 at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.
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Baggage is scanned using X-ray machines as passengers walk through metal detectors
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Food court and shops, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Canada
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Shahjalal International Airport's VIP Terminal, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Recife International Airport in Recife, Brazil.
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The apron from the top floor observation room, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Canada
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Airport Tower, Kempegowda International Airport
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Standard Visual Approach Slope Indicator
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Airport lighting
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Automated weather system
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An aircraft tow tractor moving a KLM Boeing 777 at Tokyo Narita
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Ground operations with a South African Airways Airbus A320-200 at Durban's King Shaka International Airport
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"FLF Panther" airport crash tender in Germany
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Open area near the runway at the Kuopio Airport, in 1966
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Fighter aircraft at an airbase in Lithuania
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Entrance of Tallinn Airport, also known as Lennart Meri Airport
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The Bender Qassim International Airport in Bosaso, Somalia (2007).
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The New Orleans International Airport passenger terminal building in New Orleans (1960s).
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The Mariehamn Airport in Jomala, Åland (2009).
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Washington Dulles International Airport, ostensibly the setting for Die Hard 2; the movie was actually filmed at Los Angeles International Airport
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See also
In Spanish: Aeropuerto para niños
