Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport - Lewiston NAAF

Lewiston NAAF

From late 1942, during World War II, the airfield was under the control of the United States Navy for use as a base for anti-submarine patrols by Squadron VS-31. It was officially commissioned on 15 April 1943 as Lewiston Naval Auxiliary Air Facility, and used in conjunction with Naval Air Station Brunswick for training British and American torpedo bomber pilots until 1945. Naval operations ceased on 1 December 1945, and the site was declared surplus to the Navy's requirements in 1946 and handed back to the cities of Auburn and Lewiston in 1947/8.

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