Morgan3820
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Surfing around on Skyvector and came across Calverton Executive Airpark 3C8. 2-10000ft runways marked private but owned by the Town of Riverhead. Listed as having only 3 aircraft on site. What is the deal with this place?
Calverton Executive airpark 3C8
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Skip Miller
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I can't answer your question, but Calverton is a former US Navy facility. Recently (well, after hurricane Sandy) it was used as a storage area for cars that were submerged. Both 10,000 ft runways filled to the limit with cars waiting for insurance disposition. 
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Don't know the current status, but it used to be Grumman's flight test center. A-6F, F-14D, and a pile of other F-14, A-6, and E-2 mods made their first flights there. Also had the best food service of any defense contractor I ever dealt with
Nauga,
and the good old days
Nauga,
and the good old days
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It was Grumman/Navy's playpen they left and the town umm closed it down, except for a skydiving operation. I don't know any details but there has to be cronyism/corruption nonsense going on. Various development schemes have been proposed but the Nimbys scream about everything, even making it a park. Despite having a bizillion miles of runways they get ****y if gliders out of Brookhaven land out there. It will never be an open GA airport, it will never be a racetrack or something cool. Maybe a giant public school with low income housing embedded in the middle for enforced diversity could be built there.
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If they could get back the cafeteria ladies they could open a restaurant
The hangar in which TWA Flight 800 was reconstructed is on this site.
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and the Block 1A days
That is where the F-14's were built. Now just for one skydiving operation. Grumman used to have another field on Long Island in bethpage where a bunch of their other aircraft were built, including the lunar module. But that is now gone, and is an industrial park now with no remanats of the place. Even as short as 12 years ago the runways were still visible and marked. A few people have actually started to land there instead of KFRG until they realized the mistake.