FINAL CLEARANCE SOUGHT TO OPEN TIPTON AIRFIELD JEFFERSON MORLEY WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Thursday, June 10, 1999 ; Page M01 Section: Weekly - MD - Anne Arundel Anne Arundel County officials plan to open Tipton Airfield at Fort Meade as a general aviation airport this summer, once they receive final operating approvals from the state and federal governments, officials said. Other interesting URLs related to this: http://w2.hnd.usace.army.mil/oew/factshts/factshts/ftmeade.html "Flight operations around the airfield will have to be interrupted for up to two hours daily as OE items located that day are blown in place or on site." http://www.dtic.mil/envirodod/derpreport95/vol_2/nara073.html "In December 1988, the BRAC Commission recommended that range and training areas, including the airfield at Fort Meade, be closed to realign Fort Meade from an active Army post to an administrative center. The National Security Agency is the primary tenant of the new administrative center at Fort Meade."
