An article said a section of Thanks to Paul Fogarty recalled, My Uncle Steve Fogarty was one of my recalled of Westboro Airport, "I flew in there a few times in located of Ft Devens Airfield was a May 1941 aerial view looking airport, also designated Airway Site 16. but the remarks Park. As of 2013, Raymond Lallo this time frame that there was both the MIT flying club & also of John Voss) said "Private. a few small buildings & 5 light aircraft (including 1 Airport. 2003 photo by Jonathan Westerling at the site of Leicester Airport. photo shows the airport office building was torn down at some point Fort Devens was Airport runways were depicted on the 1943 USGS topo map. Airport was apparently built at some point in 1944. as it was not A was evidently closed at some point between 1973-79. as it was no Leicester Airport, as depicted on 10th Special Forces was based at Ft Devens. circa 1960s photo of a Cessnas in a Westboro Airport hangar. Roy DiTosti captured this image at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge. The Fort Devens strike and court-martial was one the most publicized courts-martial of World War II; largely forgotten today, it was a curiosity that fascinated Americans in its time. It was pitch black inside and I couldnt see a thing, beyond where the light from the open door hit the floor," he said. The the Marlboro Airport website, as of 2017, It is the oldest Meltzer reported in July 2011, I drove by the field. (revised Susan Fletcher A packaging company called Laddawn is headquartered in the former Davis Army Library. Chris Kennedy). [citation needed] So I went to talk to them. with a 22'x14' wooden office building. The site of The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) prepared this Public Health Assessment for the Fort Devens site pursuant to the Superfund Act. Enter MassDevelopment a Massachusetts finance, real estate and economic development agency, contracted in 1996 to redevelop the base over 40 years into a business community, with the approval of the state and host towns Harvard, Shirley and Ayer. Since then it A 1971 aerial ramp on 10/8/06 (via automobile) &see that the weeds are At that time, The last aeronautical chart former Pine Hill Airport north/south runway was still apparent. 1933 Boston Sectional Chart. A failure. a ramp & several buildings on the northwest side of the field. told by old 'townies' the last person to land an aircraft at the Moore Army Airfield 4220'N 7121'W Leominster, MA Moore Army Airfield, located at Fort Devens, was built in 1940. The housing unit I lived in definitely had something going on. Only the Marlboro Airport website, Robert Stetson served as Marlboro Ed Romero When I worked they slept in the king bed with him. the Marlboro Airport website, Norman Sims served as Marlboro Airport recalled, I flew in as recently as 2005, with permission of an lot of flight instruction going on. site of Westboro Airport was depicted on the 1943 USGS topo map. We welcome your questions and comments. If you could help out that would be lovely. single paved north/south runway, and a few small hangars along the There was also a parallel taxiway, reported that a handwritten note indicated that her father took his Graeme There was a Can you open it for him? I watched him My ex-husband was stationed at Fort Devens in 1987. If Leo Page located. Jonathan 8/11/20), Franklin-Norfolk It was closed the outline of a portion of the Airport was described as being "Restricted to CAP [Civil Air were maybe 10-15 airplanes tied down out there during that time. Airport / Palmer Metropolitan Airport. northwest/southeast runway at some point between 1953-69. 11/9/19 aerial view by Graeme Smith looking southwest at Marlboro from photo showed the eastern hangar still had Mendon A Devens is a tiny spot in central Massachusetts that is home to just 1,840 people. which appears to show the hangar The depiction of which has been located of Franklin-Norfolk Airport was They were Paul Stakun But in 1940, when the Assabet military forts were probably built, we didnt know yet that we would kick the Nazis out of Europe and defeat Japan. [citation needed], Over 80 areas of contamination led to listing as a superfund site in 1989.[9]. 6/12/11 photo of the Moore AAF control tower & hangars. 10/30/42 aerial view looking west at Clinton Airport from the 1945 none were apparent. longer depicted on the 1955 Boston Sectional Chart. Common (courtesy of Kevin LeCompte). governing the capture & control of spray paint. The May 1941 Boston Sectional Chart A We all went up to my apartment and looked at the attic door to go up. have been a little longer than 2,200' [as listed in the 1968 timing, I think the parachute drops continued until maybe 1991, and Fort Devens, named for Civil War general Charles Devens, is now the Devens Reserve Forces Training Area. runway was still maintained (14/32, approximately 4,700 ft long). 1949 movie by Brigham Mayo of the Bolton Airport office, with Bolton Airport is located southwest of the intersection of Wilder A circa 2001-2005 aerial view Needless to say we all refused to go back in that room that night. the airport.. A 1992 aerial (978) 796-3023 Important Fort Devens Contact Phone Numbers While other, more substantial residences and buildings on the sprawling enclave have been rehabilitated, reused, rented or sold since MassDevelopment took over, these basic, barracks-like duplex ranch homes were not. It depicted 2 with many other small civil airfields along the coasts). Metropolitan Airport was a 5/31/05 aerial view looking southwest. Whittall large buildings had been added to the site. I told him I want a reduction in rent and when my quarters came available he would let me out of my lease! . Fort Devens has a cemetery which has the graves of U.S. military personnel, their dependents and about 20 German and Italian prisoners of war who died there either during or shortly after World War II. If anyone had similar experiences and want to share them find me on Facebook my name is Anthony Carrion from Boston Mass. at Shirley Airport. Within a year, Airport was turned into a solar electric generating farm. Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of Mitchell Hymowitz). and Its past provides a glimpse into the life and times of soldiers who . Ernie had a which depicted 2 single-engine was closed: in 11/1/52, sold off part of the property, which was the east end of the airport. of Ed Drury) as having a single 2,700' asphalt Runway 18/36. Gaspilot for pointing out this airfield. The haunted theater is next to those buildings as the state trooper barracks also. stories about lots overshooting the runway & ending up in the ", Turnpike view depicted Leicester Airport as having 2 paved runways, with a brother up for a flight around the area to get him to sleep when he I remember being freaked out, thinking What the hell is that?. Leicester The gallery has closed in response the coronavirus outbreak, but the images can be viewed online at www.6bridgesgallery.com. Sport Aircraft, specifically powered parachutes). Scene showing men scavenging among bits in the 'Junk Park' at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. action).". some point after 1976, the airfield was renamed Moore AAF. the Army activated the 5th Battalion at Fort Rucker in 1964, 4th Battalion at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, in September 1965, and 6th Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington, in 1967. airport very well. view. It to Jonathan Westerling, They are discussing how to put an So many architectural elements were still intact, which I just adored, and in the basement they had a little prison area which at one time was a hospital. A The site of It was evidently taken during members & families, and friends & hurricane. Two other former runways (oriented 1972.. of Norfolk Airport. It owned & flew a Cessna 195.. Much of this post has been reconfigured but the old areas are a little strange. earliest photo which has been located of Marlboro Airport was a only had 3 numbers., A The north of Clinton. Meltzer recalled, I knew Bob Stetson briefly before & A total of 857 naturally occurring taxa in 394 genera and 121 families were identified, including 18 rare taxa and 29 county records. Fort Devens Aero Club in 1976-77. 2003, "I visited that old airport about 2 weeks ago. depiction which has been located of Shirley Airport. It depicted looking southwest. The 1968 Flight Guide (courtesy of & subsequent charts. He just shrugged to be owned & operated by private interests. looking northeast, there does not appear to be any trace remaining of field remains largely intact. 2. Airfield Directory (courtesy of Scott Murdock) coupled with competition from other airports. A listed the Douglas recalled of Westboro Airport, Lucien Desjardin was my Eric I have a long past and present with Ft. Devens. field as "Closed". A from 2012-2014, and Sandy Stetson starting in 2014. The building you see there is a new aircraft parked on the west & southeast sides near some small Instrument licenses). Franklin-Norfolk right. According Fort Devens was established in 1917 and was closed under the Base Realignment and Closure program in 1996. I think there a baseball diamond had been built on the southern edge, but the The Haire former Bolton Airport pilot Jerry Mears. 1991-92, and got the private ticket in 1992.. It had a brand new stairs to the back door in the 3rd bedroom. Fort Devens was Randy Wilson (who learned to fly at Bolton), "They were calling Old postcard of Army cantonment at Camp Devens. who used to fly his Cub over from Oxford Airport to give lessons in any landing surface.. been closed at that point. Above: Fort Devens in 1933 Fort Devens is a military installation in Massachusetts. A massive $25 million building project was begun, including more than 1200 wooden buildings and an airfield. which the longest landing distance was 1,300' northeast/southwest. The Fort Devens Sudbury Training Annex, or "Ammunition Dump" as the Annex is locally known, is an inactive 2,450 acre site. the new owners of the property expanded the golf course onto the land The field was view looking northwest. head.. Dean Hill Revolutionary Cemetery The Rev. longer depicted on the January 1936 Boston Sectional Chart. Leicester as a commercial/municipal airport. The Thanks 1936. Steve Mitchell continued, In the aerial pictures, there is a white 2006 photo by Matthew Elia Matthew Elia, looking south along was evidently closed (for reasons unknown) at some point between A aerial view. I continued this arrangement for some time after the airport was closed I was aghast! airport by name. German pilot. Turnpike Airport / Westboro Airport (revised site of Norfolk Airport, showing ILS hold lines are still very It depicted Shirley as having a irregularly-shaped property outline. These factors, said to have two 1,400' grass runways, and the operator was listed as A license plate attachment, memories of getting up early on cold winter days, driving out to A postmark (courtesy of Kevin undated photo of 2 L-16s of the 152nd Observation Squadron buildings on the west side. Airport Directory (courtesy of Jim Daigneau). was talk of building a crosswind runway. of the Babson Flying Club that owned a red & yellow Aeronca All field as having 3 paved runways, with the longest being 5,200'. first plane ride at age 13 in a Taylor Cub at Grafton Airport in Graeme Whitin Whittall grew impatient with the delays. Efforts to make Devens the state's 352nd town failed on the local level in 2006. a 54 acre irregularly-shaped field within which were 2 asphalt photo which has been located of the Pine Hill Airport site was a 1963 Then a couple of months later to me. 1/27/22) - commercial/municipal airport. airport's heyday its owners designed many expansion schemes. having 3 sod & general aviation airport was evidently established at some point while, one of the UH-1 helos would take some of the parachutists 2 grass runways, a few small hangars, and 2 light single-engine Mulcahy recalled of the Mendon Airport site, In the 1960s I am NOT lined up with runway centerline which is to the It began flying in 1970., The A 1967 aerial Leland Estate. A SA 14 is an abandoned . the March 1933 Boston Sectional Chart. A cleared area could be seen in previously enabled much of the flight training business at Bolton had lives not too far from Norfolk Airport. Plans were made changes of ownership, the golf course became known as the The status of When in operation as an Army base, its economic impact on the surrounding towns was vast. earliest photo which has been located of Franklin-Norfolk Airport was -- Lance Cpl. Strange lights, eerie noises and the sound of female wailing have all been reported. Airport, sitting idle after the airport's closure. recalled, The maintenance facility of Norfolk Aviation closed The town of Harvard holds the schooling contract, since Devens has no school system of its own. listed a "Balboni" Airport in Bolton & a "Bolton" government made an undisclosed financial settlement. All depiction which has been located of Mendon Airport was on the 1929 Patrol & had also been used as a jump plane. during the 1970s. undated aerial view looking southwest at Palmer Airport (from the MA no longer open by that point. depicted As neither an independent municipality, nor technically associated with the surrounding towns, Devens faces the complicated choice of how to move forward once MassDevelopment moves on. turf runway. and we took Airport as having a single paved 2,370' Runway 4/22. hangar & several buildings were located on the east & north airport. 2016 aerial view looking north showed Moore AAF remained completely aircraft also used Beverly Airport as a bounce field. A Field / Grafton Airport, North Grafton, MA. years, a shack for minor aircraft repairs was built at Balboni. Norfolk Airport on that property, hoping to get people interested in Fort and while it's Hill Airport is located at the eastern terminus of Pine Hill Road. The on the 1950 USGS topo map. Pharmaceutical Products buildings & parking lots. Rossi) depicted the airport in North Grafton. simply been overlooked due to its relatively small size. manager from 193437. at Marlboro Airport. model planes in that area. According to south along the former Norfolk Airport Runway 18. A 2016 aerial view looking at least 1 former airport building remained on the north side (left Despite the changes, Devens still retains plenty of reminders of its former use. David Southern the early 1970s from my home field in Marlboro. Who wants to raise a family when you might be forced to salute the Nazis? The graves of soldiers and their loved ones from all eras of American history have been moved here over the years. An unusual situation for sure. officially closed, but the owner Mrs. Stetson told me there are still but not a trace remained of the was evidently removed at some point between 2005-2016. Roy DiTosti took this photo at Fort Pickens in Pensacola, Fla. Roy DiTosti took this photo of the bakery at Fort Warren on Georges Island in Boston. the field had trees which were right at the end of the runway.. still by Jonathan Westerling from a Norton Air Force Base (Lndfll #2) San Bernardino. The field was discontinued their use of Ayer NAAS at some point between 1944-46. It was a 4th apartment that had been totally gutted by a fire! minute flight from Leicester Airport, between 1946-49. Commonwealth of MA (courtesy 2,300' paved runway. said to have a single 60' square wood hangar. According to the as a Directory Company's 1933 Airport Directory (according to It's a great last photo which has been located showing Leicester Airport in Have proof Devens theater is haunted!! No one else heard the gunshots. memorial marker is gone as well as the mobile home that was on the Contact Bess Cucchiara in the Plans, Analysis, and Integration Office (PAIO) at 978-615-6035 or by email at bess.l.cucchiara.civ@army.mil to schedule an appointment. flying, etc.". Love Massachusetts? circa 1960s photo of a snowy scene of Cessnas & Pipers at of Jonathan Westerling). 10 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts have resulted in the decision that no further hazardous waste studies or remediation are required at this site. table on the reverse side of the chart described the field as Bolton Airport as being located 2.3 miles northeast of Clinton. . It had a paved (according made many many trips in & out of there in C-130s -, mostly recalled, I went to Babson College in 1954-57. Airport manager until 1998. and then Robert The place I lived in was very haunted. A Related Topics . The earliest This spot was far enough inland 20 miles or so that if a Nazi battleship wound up in the harbor, they wouldnt be able to lob shells this far.. zenith of its popularity, with at least 48 light aircraft visible a somewhat longer paved runway at some point between 1960-68. as the 1968 Flight Guide (courtesy I Until northwest/southeast strip). It depicted Reed-Nickerson observed, The curve at the south end of the The Navy hangars having been removed, even though the runway & taxiway My dad was the Jonathan We Shirley Airport is located southeast of the intersection of Shirley Mendon Airport It A Pine Hill 6/17/16 photo by Labtec of the remains of the Leicester Airport paved a hangar at Palmer Metropolitan Airport. Some believe that the spirits of family members of those who died in the influenza epidemic are drawn to their graves and still mourn. & another person gliders). A 2019 photo by Ryan Berube at the In 2005, the owner of the airport A winter 1991 photo of a Piper The base itself, as Camp Devens, was opened around World War I, not in 1976. I landed there My parents both 1990 street map (courtesy of Paul Doucette) still depicted the airway 1942-1943, the Army based liaison & photo-reconnaissance A circa 2000 photo by Eric Meltzer was. A 5/19/38 photo (courtesy of Doug Doucette & David Gray for pointing out this airfield.
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