Naval Air Station Brunswick
Former military airport in Brunswick, Maine, United States
Naval Air Station Brunswick, also known as NAS Brunswick or the Brunswick Naval Air Station, was a military airport located 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Brunswick, Maine, with a number of Navy-operated maritime patrol aircraft. As of November 28, 2009, the last aircraft left. The runways were permanently closed in January 2010. The base operated while the airport operated publicly under the name Brunswick Executive Airport until the base closed on May 31, 2011, as per the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure committee decision. Since then, the base is known as Brunswick Landing. The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority has been managing base redevelopment with a high-tech business and industrial park. On April 2, 2011, the airport reopened as Brunswick Executive Airport.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Naval Air Station Brunswick” as former military airport in Brunswick, Maine, United States. 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 former military airport in Brunswick, Maine, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
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