Without wishing to prolong any "pick-nittery", and while ANOs do, as quoted, call a place from which flying is committed an "aerodrome" - did you, BEagle (or any of us who have done so) actually talk about "the aerodrome" or prefer "the airfield" to refer to the not-built-up area of an RAF station when we were operating Her Majesty's magnificent Flying Machines.
Not just "genpub" (or so I thought I was in my light blue days* ...).
* Not now either, at heart, even though I've been a spectator for a few decades now.
