Oscoda–Wurtsmith Airport (IATA: OSC, ICAO: KOSC, FAA LID: OSC) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Oscoda, an unincorporated community in Iosco County, Michigan, United States.
This is the third major announcement from the organization — guiding Michigan’s aerospace and defense manufacturing community within the global industry.
[9][10][11] The airport also has a hot pit for the Michigan Air National Guard to allow aircraft to restock and resupply without shutting their engines off.
The Air National Guard will supply its own fuel, and the entire project will run at little to no cost to the airport.
Discovery of groundwater contaminated with metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and volatile organic compounds, including trichloroethylene, 1,1-dichloroethane, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, and vinyl chloridebon the base drove the proposal.
[13] Knowledge of the contaminated soil and groundwater existed since 1977, and cleanup efforts began before the Superfund program was created.
There is a "do not eat" advisory for all non-migratory fish caught from Clark's Marsh and the lower Au Sable River south of the former base.
Wurtsmith is one of 200 military installations around the world that did or still use PFC-laden Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF).