Calverton Executive Airpark
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Calverton in 1979-80
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| Airport type | Public-owned, Private-use | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Town of Riverhead | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Calverton, New York | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 75 ft / 23 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°54′54″N 072°47′31″W / 40.91500°N 72.79194°W | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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Calverton Executive Airpark (IATA: CTO, FAA LID: 3C8, formerly CTO) is a public-owned private-use airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of the Calverton hamlet, in the Town of Riverhead,Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is owned by the Town of Riverhead.
It was formerly the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton which was owned by the United States Navy and used to assemble, test, refit and retrofit jets built by the Grumman Corporation on Long Island.
The airport covers an area of 2,921 acres (1,182 ha) which contains two asphalt and concrete runways: 14/32 measuring 10,000 by 200 feet (3,048 m × 61 m) and 5/23 measuring 7,000 by 200 feet (2,134 m × 61 m).
The airport is lightly used, with most planes using the nearby Francis S. Gabreski Airport. Its most visible commercial air tenant is Skydive Long Island which since 2000 had been using the airport for its skydiving operations.
In January 2008, the Riverhead Town Board with newly elected officers signed a deal to close and sell the airport for $155 million to Riverhead Resorts.
In 1996, the wreckage of TWA Flight 800, which had exploded, disintegrated and crashed about 20 miles (32 km) south of the airport, was reconstructed in a hangar.
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