[MilCom] Sad day for the Northeast US.

[Ed Langworthy]

Runways' closing at Brunswick Naval Air Station
January 29, 2010 05:31 EST


BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- When the runways' lights go out at Brunswick Naval Air Station, they're going to stay out. For several 
months, at least.

Air operations end at 10 p.m. Friday, another milestone in the closing of what was the last active-duty military airfield in New 
England. That means no control tower, no radar, no runway lights. Also, the Navy will place large yellow X's on the runways and stop 
plowing them.

Cmdr. David Ivezic, the air boss, said some transient aircraft have visited the base since the last P-3 Orions departed on Nov. 28. 
But that ends Friday night.

The decision to shutter the base was made in the final round of closings by the Base Closure and Realignment Commission in 2005. The 
base closes for good in May 2011.