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All air traffic grounded at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort
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RELOCATED SQUADRONS
Marine Fighter Attack Squadrons 312 and 251, the Checkerboards and Thunderbolts, will train out of Savannah until the airfield re-opens, said Capt. James Jarvis, air station spokesman.
The air station's lone Naval squadron, VFA-86, the Sidewinders, took its F/A-18s to Key West, Fla., this week to train for a carrier deployment aboard the USS Nimitz next year.
BEAUFORT -- All air traffic out of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort has been grounded this week while construction crews work around the clock to pave the 500-foot intersection of the air station's primary and secondary runways.
The closure is part of a $5.5 million, routine maintenance project to resurface the 12,000-foot main runway. The project also includes installing new runway lights and using a pressure water cannon to remove skid marks from the runway.
The airfield closed Saturday and isn't expected to re-open until Tuesday, barring inclement weather that could slow construction, said David Moore, airfield operations manager.
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