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Heliport vs Aeroport - What's the difference?

heliport | aeroport |

As nouns the difference between heliport and aeroport

is that heliport is heliport (facility for helicopters) while aeroport is airport (place, company managing such a place).

heliport

English

(wikipedia heliport)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a facility, such as a small airport, designed to let helicopters take off and land

    • Related terms

    * airport * helipad

    aeroport

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, dated) An airport.
  • * 1977 , Excerpta Medica
    • Almost all the air accidents occur in the near vicinity of an aeroport ...
  • * 1994 , George W Zobrist, James V Leonard, Progress in Simulation
    • ...to imitate flow of aircraft through an airspace and behavior of landing and taking-off aircraft in an aeroport area.
  • * 2008 , Chris Stewart, The God of War
    • I couldn't have gotten within a hundred feet of your fighters, and I hold an aeroport security badge. There is no way the Saudi prince got to your aircraft...

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