air-transportable

adjective

air-trans·​port·​able

: capable of being transported by air : designed to be transported by air

air-transportable military vehicles

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Navy Seabees have both tested air transportable modular structures for use in remote regions.

—Terry T. McFadden and F. Lawrence Bennet, Construction in Cold Regions, 1991

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

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