FSBO- Former Air Force base with ‘panoramic ocean views’ for sale
Cambria Air Force Base
$4.4M USD and it’s yours! Amenities include a bowling alley, a movie theater, an outdoor basketball court, a putting green, and lots of asbestos.
FTA:
By KATHE TANNER
A spectacular piece of Cambria property with a military past is on the market for $4.375 million, according to various real estate websites.
The 34-acre hilltop parcel is the former site of a U.S. Air Force radio station.
“This unique property is surrounded by cattle ranches and the Pacific Ocean. Enjoy astounding panoramic ocean views,” a listing on Redfin.com reads.
According to the listing, a “former commander’s office” on the site was converted to a five-bedroom, two-bath home in 2003. There are also “lucrative cell tower leases in place with opportunity for more,” the listing says.
Now zoned for recreational use, the property was owned and operated by the Air Force from the 1940s until 1980. The former general surveillance radar station, about 3 miles south-southeast of Cambria, has a jaw-dropping 360-degree view of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding mountains.
During the station’s heyday, officers and enlisted men operated the station and scanned for enemy aircraft and missiles.
Just the place for a TAH retreat. I’ll open the GoFundMe account and rattle the cup. Read the rest here: American Military News
Category: Air Force
If I was a millionaire…..
Only if it has a mortar position…
GT it prolly still has a position on the Targeting Grid Square of a Ruskkie MIRV. We may end up needing the bomb shelter. And it’s in Commiefornia. It would make a nice rifle range tho, so there is that.
No runway? Otherwise, sounds like a pretty good deal from here. We definitely need to buy it. Besides all the obvious, it would be a great place to park a few tanks.
Can we declare it an independent territory, secede from California?
And after you pay the $4+ mil asking price, you get to pay that much again for asbestos removal. I’m sure someone will crunch the numbers and still want to buy it.
It’s a beautiful tank!
It’s a mother beautiful bridge and it’s going to be there!
I think Andy is right, if maybe a little low on the remediation… sigh
There used to be an Air Force early warning radar station on Mt Laguna, not far from where I grew up. Of course, the property also included a large fenced-off area well away from the base facility itself, where my Grandpa observed from the adjacent US Forest Service fire station multiple large camouflaged* concrete slabs with a big seam down the middle if each one, with USAF personnel coming and going from a hatch in the ground, and other USAF personnel patrolling the fence with “DO NOT CROSS, DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED” signs. And when it was closed down, the Air Force trucked yard after yard after yard of fill dirt in there, while dozens of box trucks and flatbeds hauled heavy loads out, for weeks.
Just radar, right?
* According to Grandpa, they were camouflaged against observation from the air, but there were a few out-of-the-way vantage points on the ground from which you could tell what they were, if not exactly what was under them.
Boy that would be a steal if you can get it for just the radar station listing, and not the filled in “not bunker/silo”. Plus you get all that fill dirt to play with for a few years, making the grounds nice and stable around it.
A good retirement project.
The FAA now owns most of the site and uses it for air traffic control radar. I guess the Air Force still has a radar set up there, but it’s remotely operated from March AFB. They never wanted any residents getting too curious about what might have been there.
was that base part of the DEW Line????
Don’t think so Jeff. Those stations were in the Arctic covering the North Pole Route for Soviet Bombers. Ma Bell’s people built a lot of those. I’d venture that this station was looking more just out toward the Pacific. It may have been tied in as a repeater station to Cheyenne Mountain at some point in time. Or as a nice plum duty station to give to an airedale for being a particularly “good boy.”
Nope – former SAGE radar location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria_Air_Force_Station
5/77 is correct; the DEW Line stations were in the far north.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line
At first I thought “JUST AS SOON as I can win the Powerball Jackpot…”, but as soon as I saw that it’s in the People’s Republik of Kalifornia I thought “Forget it”, who in their right mind wants to live in Taxifornia?
That would be a waste of your jackpot money, even if it was not in California.
Buy instead a little island off the coast of Florida, and built you survival bunker.
If is has CA in the address you couldn’t GIVE it to me. My moral compass may not, as they say, always point due north. I am not always as kind as I should be, and a host of other sins… but there are are a few things I will not do.
Buy it, then open a church on the property and declare it all tax-exempt. That would stick it to the state government. We could all live there as parishioners and “church” custodians…
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That would be great, but if the property taxes are still exempt. I seem to recall a few church properties having to get sold to pay taxes…the one Katy Perry bought comes to mind. Or was that because the Priests got caught with their pants down?
It’s in a hostile foreign country.
We should invade and conquer it, under Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine.
Oh the land of fruits and nuts!
Keep it!!!
What a prime site for an antenna farm………
Any frequency, any antenna, any size.