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7 unusual facts about Bangor International Airport


132d Air Refueling Squadron

With the inactivation of Dow AFB in 1968, most of the base was purchased by the city of Bangor and reopened the following year as Bangor International Airport.

Joseph Sarnoski

In September 1941 Sarnoski was transferred to Dow Field, Bangor, Maine, as a bombing instructor with the 65th Bombardment Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, newly equipped with B-17s.

Maine State Route 222

After it crosses Interstate 95, the route is next to the Bangor International Airport.

Maine State Route 9

) Although anecdotes about unexploded ordnance deriving from bombers flying from the former Dow Air Force Base (now Bangor International Airport) using a number of towers and landmarks along "The Airline", in fact the term goes back to the early 1850s as a contrast to the shoreline route.

Major bases and units of Tactical Air Command

Dow AFB, Maine
(20 November 1946 – 1 December 1948)
14th Fighter Group

The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair

That night, after receiving a call from Bonnie that she will be returning home, Meg travels to the airport where Bonnie is departing (Bangor International Airport), in an attempt to plant a weapon in her luggage.

The Way We Get By

The Way We Get By is a 2009 documentary film directed by Aron Gaudet and produced by Gita Pullapilly, about a group of senior citizens in Bangor, Maine who greet U.S. troops at the Bangor International Airport.


New Brunswick Highway Patrol

His rented Porsche was found at Bangor International Airport and Romeo was arrested by police at Logan International Airport in Boston where he was attempting to board a flight to Florida.


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