{"id":243753,"date":"2025-06-30T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/largest-air-force-bases-area\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:00:17","slug":"top-5-these-are-the-largest-air-force-bases-by-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=243753","title":{"rendered":"Top 5: These Are The Largest Air Force Bases By Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When comparing the size of the world&#8217;s largest air bases to the world&#8217;s biggest commercial airports, it is the military installations that dwarf their civil counterparts. For example, one of the largest airports in the world &#8211; <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"144284\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/denver-international-airport\/\"  >Denver International Airport<\/a><\/span> (DEN) &#8211; has an area of 34,000 acres (137.8 km\u00b2), which is less than 8% of the total area of the world&#8217;s largest air force base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All five bases are operated by the United States Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,396,475,17249,17248,917,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-edwards-air-force-base","category-eglin-air-force-base","category-guam","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243754,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243753\/revisions\/243754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}