Border Beacon

Border Beacon (Mid-Canada Line Site 212) was a United States Air Force military installation in Labrador, located approximately 190 km (120 mi) west of the Town of Hopedale.^[1] Border Beacon was a bistatic radar Doppler Detection Station on the Mid-Canada Line system of early-warning radar stations.^[2]

Border Beacon
Mid-Canada Line Site 212
Part of Mid-Canada Line
Labrador, Canada
Site information
Controlled by	United States Air Force
Location
Border Beacon Location of MCL Site 212
Coordinates	55.332761°N 63.214139°W / 55.332761; -63.214139
Site history
Built	1957
Built by	United States Air Force
In use	1958 – April 1965
Demolished	1987
Airfield information
Runways Direction Length and surface 08/26 1,500 m (4,900 ft) Gravel

Opened in 1957, and fully operational in 1958,^[3] Border Beacon was in operation for eight years. The eastern portion of the Mid-Canada Line was shut down in 1965 and the site was closed.^[4]

Transport Canada

The Government of Canada took possession of the Border Beacon site from the US in 1965 and transformed it into a weather station. Transport Canada operated the weather station until it closed in the 1970s.^[1]

Accidents and incidents

• On 10 January 1986, a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (C-GUBD) of Goose Bay Air Services departed CFB Goose Bay and crashed at Border Beacon due to unknown circumstances.^[5]