Lucyville, CA 🇨🇦 Closed Airport
CA-0754
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181 ft
CA-NL
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Local Code: Not available
Location: 54.769627° N, -58.436923° E
Continent: NA
Type: Closed Airport
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Approximately 1961
Military Decommissioning. The airstrip was built to serve the Cape Harrison Air Station, a Pinetree Line General Surveillance Radar station operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and later the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The entire station was closed in 1961 as the Pinetree Line became technologically obsolete with the advent of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) and more advanced radar systems like the DEW Line. With the closure of the base, the airstrip was no longer needed for logistical support and was abandoned.
The site is abandoned and derelict. Satellite imagery clearly shows the 3,000-foot gravel runway is still visible but is in a severe state of disrepair, overgrown with vegetation, and unusable for any standard aircraft. The foundations and debris from the former military station buildings are scattered nearby. The entire site, including the airstrip, is a designated contaminated site due to leftover hazardous materials from its military operations, such as PCBs, fuel hydrocarbons, and heavy metals. It is not used for any purpose and is only accessible by boat or helicopter.
The Cape Harrison Airstrip was a critical logistical component of North American air defense during the Cold War. Constructed in the early 1950s, its primary purpose was to facilitate the construction of and provide year-round support for the Cape Harrison Air Station (Pinetree Line Site N-27, callsign 'Lottie'). Due to the site's extreme remoteness and inaccessibility by sea during winter, the gravel airstrip was essential for transporting personnel, supplies, food, and equipment via military transport aircraft like the C-47 Skytrain. It played a direct role in the continental surveillance network designed to detect and intercept Soviet bombers.
There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the Cape Harrison Airstrip. The reasons include: the lack of any local community or industry to serve, the prohibitive cost of environmental remediation of the contaminated site, the extensive reconstruction required to make the runway safe and operational, and its complete lack of strategic or economic purpose in the modern era. Its reopening is considered logistically and financially infeasible.
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