- City:
- Fort Kent, ME
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Site Survival:
- Partially Extant
Description
The W.P.A. developed the former Fort Kent Municipal Airport.
W.P.A. project info:
“Construct Fort Kent Municipal Airport”
Official Project Number: 165‐1‐11‐99
Total project cost: $486,000.00
Sponsor: Town of Fort Kent
As of 2023, this airfield is in use. It was abandoned up until about 2019. While the field was abandoned, there were no facilities and only a dilapidated shed that had been used by a crop dusting company. The owners have started rebuilding the field and expect to have the field in good enough condition for the FAA to designate it as an emergency backup field.
Source notes
Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-85).
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 7, 2018.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere, George Dumond.
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