Closure and Redevelopment
NAS Albany/Turner Field was closed by the Navy in 1976 and its RA-5C Vigilante wing and squadrons transferred to NAS Key West, FL. At the time of its closure, the NAS Albany airfield consisted of a single runway (12,050 feet long x 300 feet wide), taxiways, a large ramp area, and numerous hangars & buildings.
After its closure by the Navy, Turner was briefly reused for civil flying and a tenant Georgia Army National Guard aviation unit, with the nearby Ayres aircraft manufacturing company using the field to train pilots for their crop-duster aircraft.
Following its closure, the site was actively marketed for economic redevelopment by the local government. They were rewarded by the selection in 1978 of the Turner AFB site by the Miller Brewing Company, which built an extensive brewery operation at the location, almost completely obliterating any trace of the former 12,050-foot runway and associated aircraft ramp facilities.
A large part of the base still exists. The brewery effectively took the site from the runways east, but most of the base remains intact, including multiple buildings, hangars, much of the signage, along with many guard and utility shacks around the perimeter. Western concrete ramps are still there, as is much of the leftover hardware. The original perimeter chainlink fence is still up, and there are still signs warning against photography without permission of the commander. The site is now home to a U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps center.
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