If you love the sound of freedom then you’ll be happy to hear that you’ll be in for lots more of it next week. MCAS Beaufort has announced that there may be an increase in noise and unusual activity in the skies over Beaufort starting next Monday.
According to the release, we can expect to hear the increase during the late evening and early morning hours due to “irregular training” accompanied by “unusual activity” being conducted on Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.
That’s nothing new around here.
The past year has seen an increase in activity above Beaufort with an increase of training combined with the main runway being closed for repairs and the shifting of jet traffic to a secondary runway that, upon departure and arrival, had all traffic flying over the city and its Pigeon Point neighborhood.
MCAS Beaufort said that next week’s increase should be expected from November 9th through the 13th.
We never get enough of the sound of freedom in our skies. It’s a Beaufort tradition.
Beaufort legend, Pat Conroy, wrote about it in the Great Santini and Beaufort’s residents and visitors have turned their heads towards the heavens since the commissioning of Naval Air Station Beaufort on June 15th, 1943, as jets from ‘Fightertown’ have filled our skies ever since.
