The Recreational Aviation Foundation has bestowed a grant to improve Ragmuff Airport (ME26), which is in the heart of the North Maine Woods on private forest land.
The airstrip had been closed for decades when RAF Maine Liaisons Andy Rowe and Steve Mason recognized its recreational value. They worked with the landowner to get it reopened and charted with the FAA identifier ME26 in 2023, according to RAF officials.
“The west branch of the Penobscot River is just a mile and a half hike and offers good fishing for brook trout and landlocked salmon,” says Rowe. “Fall is the premier time to be there — colors turn, it becomes bug-free, and partridge and fishing seasons overlap.”
RAF Maine Ambassador Larry Grenier was just awarded a grant to pay for materials for a new picnic table and fire ring that volunteers will install in the spring.
He reports that members of the Bowman Flying Club at Bowman Field Airport (B10) in Livermore Falls, Maine, which is about 100 nm south of ME26, are planning a work day to “go up with a brush hog and tools to Ragmuff for field maintenance, clearing overgrowth around the runway and the camping area.”
Ragmuff Airport is listed in RAF’s Airfield Guide, with Andy Rowe as the main contact.
For more information: TheRAF.org
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