A temporary strip was followed by the construction of a permanent airfield and flights between Stanley and Comodoro Rivadavia continued until 1982.

Construction on Elmendorf Field began on 8 June 1940, as a major and permanent military airfield near Anchorage.

On 5 April 1911, Tokugawa piloted the inaugural flight at Japan's first permanent airfield in Tokorozawa.

Fort Omaha became, for a while, the first permanent military airfield in the United States.

The RAF Hal Far airfield was the first permanent airfield to be built on Malta.

RAF Mount Pleasant is the newest permanent airfield in the Royal Air Force.

Construction of the airfield began on 8 June when 25 locally hired men began clearing brush, the Army intending it to be a permanent airfield.

Barton Aerodrome was opened on 1 January 1930 and was the first permanent municipal airfield in the United Kingdom.

However, in the spring of 1926 an emergency strip, which had been laid out on the present site in 1923, was converted into a permanent airfield.

The 10th Service Group and 27th Mobile Repair Maintenance Squadron was established to support these transitory groups before they moved onto their permanent airfields.