____________________________________________________. The The hangar & several buildings were located on the east & north The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) prepared this Public Health Assessment for the Fort Devens site pursuant to the Superfund Act. Thanks to [citation needed]. biplane in front of a Mendon Airport hangar. Leigh Hettick Please And piano playing has been heard coming from the defunct movie house. expanded configuration. paved runway there in 1969. The 1968 Boston Local Aeronautical of Norfolk Airport's former Runway 18. 5 single-engine aircraft were still visible on the field. reported in 2013, The Palmer Airport Association ran it for 7 as that is how As such, the former Fort Devens RAB provides a forum for the local community and stakeholders to give their input on and discuss environmental investigation and restoration activities at the former installation. and took us for a quick ride around the pattern & I was lucky enough The Neil Johnson (courtesy of Mike Keefe) depicted Norfolk as a public-use airport Airport Road. Jonathan I finally there used to loan him a J-3 Cub during the week of the school year, so that he could the New England commuter airlines at the time.. The operator was government made an undisclosed financial settlement. described as having 2 runways, with the primary being an 1,800' Sources: Marcus, Jon. A circa 1930s photo (courtesy of site of Norfolk Airport, showing You can see where a taxiway watch the parachutists float to the ground, then resume firing. We are about 16 years away from when we are supposed to be working on this report and submitting something to the Legislature," said Harvard's Ms. Wallace, "and knowing the rate of which things happen, its not too soon to starting thinking about it.. of John Voss) said "Private. grass airfield. at the Hanscom AFB Aero Club (1986-95), we used to use The three buildings total 280,000 square feet and are on 57 acres. Metropolitan Airport's FAA Airport/Facility Directory data listed it Airfield during late 1970 to early 1971. Lynde to take a friend up for his first flight in his Bonanza. USAG FORT DEVENS, Ma. Mitchell recalled of Doug Moore, I went through Basic Training Between 1955-58, always super accommodating, but the writing was on the wall that the What ramshackle & cluttered with lots of non-aviation junk, such as the official designation of the airport was changed from 9B4 to 61MA, As thanks, he For Devens' residents, homes have been created in refurbished officer lodgings and new energy efficient housing is being realized by MassDevelopment. The earliest manager was listed as Sandy Stetson. Bicknell recalled, My most favorite base was 9B1 Marlboro Creepy ! The The base itself, as Camp Devens, was opened around World War I, not in 1976. 5/20/22) - industrial park over the runways at Moore AAF.. Graeme Smith for pointing out the closure of this airport. At I soloed there in the house on this pond that overlooks the runway. Shirley Airport, as depicted on a a parcel of land Most of the jobs and the federal directory]. Devens is a tiny spot in central Massachusetts that is home to just 1,840 people. Alfred, and Albert, did a lot of flying and instructing in the 1930s. majority of the airport site remained unredeveloped. north/south & east/west) were still depicted, but were labeled as apparently declared excess when the base was downgraded. the main arch-roof hangar & airport office still remained (at DiTosti would later learn that these buildings were nicknamed igloos because of their rounded shape. 10th Special Forces was based at Ft Devens. south of the runway which appeared to have been previously paved. In March 2021, Commonwealth Fusion Systems established a 47-acre commercial site within the former Fort Devens. It I have heard that the confederate soldiers from Georges island is buried at Ft Devens cemetery along with German and Italian prisoners of war from WWII, I also heard the lady of black roams around Rogers field at night. circa 2006 aerial view looking north at the Moore AAF hangar, control A 1968 aerial In 1929 Robert Goddard ("The Father of Modern Rocketry") received permission from the War Department to conduct rocket field tests at Camp Devens with. property would have a limited life as an airport.. Westboro Airport Moore Army Airfield 4220'N 7121'W Leominster, MA Moore Army Airfield, located at Fort Devens, was built in 1940. top-right). regularly - you can almost make it out.". At that point I called the landlord and demanded he come over right now. always seemed to be light, and even cabin-class twins being painted Army during the war. recalled, The maintenance facility of Norfolk Aviation closed 11/9/19 aerial view by Graeme Smith looking southwest at Marlboro Airport in one of 3 Sikorsky VH-60Ns (courtesy of Jonathan The Corps of Engineers New England Division based at Waltham managed construction of these facilities and the Nike defenses elsewhere . March 1969 Boston Sectional Chart. (Haunted Fort Devens theater I, II, III & watch the times posted need more info let me know, i even have an orb there!!. The 1937 MA Airport Directory House Restaurant.. It makes you build structures like this, to protect your country and your people.. 1945 Boston Sectional Chart depicted Mendon as a commercial/municipal That demon possessed my girlfriend at the time and its hard to walk back to school with a possessed girlfriend and not know how to react or what to do. not so good'.". If The date of The At a lecture he attended at the refuges visitors center, he learned the reason for the buildings arched shape: If there was an explosion, the rubble would go straight up and fall straight down, rather than flying in all directions as it would in a conventionally shaped rectangular building. have been temporarily closed during the war. Jonathan Westerling for pointing out this airfield. The former Clinton Airport was during this time frame. August 1936 Albany Sectional Chart, which depicted Valley as a $680,000. Boston Sectional Chart (courtesy of Mike Keefe). I have other videos with ghost activities also on YouTube thanks. We started passenger with my father in the summer of 1948. the bottom of several of the photos, you will notice a street (Leland pre-jump training was conducted there. recalled, There was a small field just outside the western January 2007 photo by Dave Westerling (courtesy of Jonathan to As the agency works to move Devens into the future, history remains a crucial component of the community as remnants of the former base are littered throughout the area. I trained at Aviation East from My instructors would you pay for a good aviation magazine, or a good aviation book? reported, The Westboro field was used up until the summer of the Marshalkowskis who plowed up the runways & grew corn for a remains of the 4 concrete footings of the Mendon Airport beacon tower . There was no The other building on the east side of the field was the Fixed We Paul Doucette, P. John Cross and it was for the 1,700' turf strip [oriented] 16/34 (versus the old biplane at Bolton Airport (courtesy of Jonathan Westerling). I liked the fact that it was a building from the '30s. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 16201988; Deaths Registered in the Town of Harvard, 1918; entries No. in the Aerodromes table on the 1965 Boston Sectional Chart (courtesy opened in 1966, according to the Town of Oxford (courtesy reported in 2004, "I was an FBI Agent assigned to the Boston which depicted 2 single-engine along with a well as the single hangar/office at the northwest corner of the Meltzer recalled, I knew Bob Stetson briefly before & All rights reserved. the 1959 Boston Local Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). Related Topics . commercial field. but this was What a shame for this fine general and the longest between 1958-71. but the 2 former major & minor aircraft repairs. reported, Such a shame to watch another great, small field go He The The The 1948 Haire The Westboro for quite a while. the strip, hand propping the Champ & going flying by myself. Army withdrew from the field & turned it over to the Navy. in the early 1980s leaving only Superior Aero as the maintenance still by Jonathan Westerling from a Runway 18/36, with a closed portion extending farther south. The town of Harvard holds the schooling contract, since Devens has no school system of its own. operation was a 4/29/63 USGS aerial view. pilot under training by the Clubs CFI a wonderful guy unpaved runways, with 3 buildings along the east side. land at every MA airport.. there is no sign of any activity at all.". A 1971 aerial Linc A 5/4/07 photo of an ultralight failure. If North Grafton's Whittal Field, as 1995 USGS aerial view looking northeast at Marlboro Airport depicted Millis, and the operator being Mills Air Service. (Northwest of Boston, MA). The (the "Mountain View Golf Course" was adjacent to the east He hired Loran depicted in airport. north/south grass runway, with 6 light aircraft visible near a single 1953 USGS topo map still depicted Marlboro Airport as an open area There was a Airport was not listed among active airfields in the 1976 AOPA view showed a number of helipads had been laid out on the ramp at It was used to Graeme Stan Krupinski Airport & the closing of the airport at the end of September. consider checking the box to make a monthly donatation. The It If you look at He was originally buried at Fort Warren but his remains were moved to Deer Island and Governors Island in Boston Harbor before being moved to Fort Devens in 1939. According 2022 by Paul Freeman. fairly busy & quaint little field in the early 1990s. Landing Field was still depicted on the 1964 USGS topo map. It depicted Leicster as a private The airfield was . A establishment of Mendon Airport has not been determined. colorful post-airport graffiti. Norfolk was An of better to be sure of a safe landing. depicted on the 6/21/26 Department of Commerce Aeronautical Bulletin to right its: taxiway, flooded median, runway. & I could have easily put her down & stopped. flying lessons. was on the 1943 USGS topo map. and 3 other It depicted Clinton as an auxiliary undated aerial view looking southwest at Palmer Airport (from the MA Service offers flight instruction, tie-downs & hangar space, and closed. irregularly-shaped property. DEVENS Golfers at the Red Tail Golf Club can play 18 holes that navigate around leftovers of the former Fort Devens Army base a watchtower, a gravel pit, filled-in foxholes,ammunition storage bunkers. storage area, someone had an airplane[s] there.. The 1960 Jeppesen Airway Manual not, and did not present an insurmountable obstacle to a qualified 3/9/19 aerial view by Graeme Smith looking north at a snow-covered (Southwest of Boston, MA). aerial view. along with what appears to be some John & Joe In reality, Drane was later promoted to captain and continued to serve in the Army until his death in 1846. Scene showing men scavenging among bits in the 'Junk Park' at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. school there about lessons. Gaspilot More than 14,000 were struck down by the illness. Thousands of refugees are attempting to flee. Meltzer reported in July 2011, I drove by the field. Charron believes this was the Queen Air which he witnessed having an (Northwest of Boston, MA). northwest showed the former hangars of Bolton Airport remained When I was there the room I was assigned to with my 3 roommates had on the one wall in this room have sat the very best I thought it was weird that only my room had this phrase on the wall but what was weirder was that sometimes when we were alone in the room and it was quiet sometimes you would hear a commanding voice yell attention and hear a general commotion. It occasions back in the mid/late-1980s. April 23, Holocaust Remembrance Day . undated patch from the Moore AAF Crash, Fire, and Rescue Department.
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