Many old SAC B-52 runways are 13,000ish by 300' wide. Thats a lot of concrete.

The former Pease AFB is a couple miles across Great Bay from my house.
When SAC left many years ago, it became home to the NH Air Guard, but
remained an Air Force Base. One summer they moved all the KC-135s to
New York state and resurfaced the runway. What bliss for three months!

Of course you know what happened next: Pease was closed down. All that
concrete was sold to a "tradeport" authority for a dollar.

The KC-135s are still there, however, and still noisy in the summer.
So I guess the guvmint got something out of its investment.

(And the air traffic controller still says: "Check landing gear down
and locked.")

all the best -- Dan Ford
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