Spencer Airport
airport in Massachusetts, United States of America
Spencer Airport (ICAO: K60M, FAA LID: 60M) in Spencer, Massachusetts, United States, is a public airport founded in December 1946 by Carl Andrews and remains owned by his family. It is currently owned by Jennifer Andrews, whose husband, Gregg E. Andrews, was killed in a plane crash at the airport on Dec 22, 2010. His plane lost power on takeoff, and the wing collided with a tree about 850 feet from the departure end of the runway. Gregg was Carl Andrew's grandson.
Spencer Airport is currently in disrepair. Its single runway (numbered 1/19) is approximately 1900 ft long, but is uneven and ill-maintained. The airport is unattended, but it remains open to the public.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Spencer Airport” as airport in Massachusetts, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as airport in Massachusetts, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7575982. Authority coordinates are 42.291, -71.965. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 2010 and 1900.
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