{{Short description|Former Royal Canadian Air Force military installation in Labrador}} {{Infobox military installation | name = Border Beacon | native_name = Mid-Canada Line Site 212 | partof = Mid-Canada Line | location = Labrador, Canada | ensign = File:Roundel of the USAF.svg | image = | caption = | map_type = Canada Newfoundland and Labrador | map_relief = | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = Location of MCL Site 212 | type = | coordinates = {{coord|55.332761|-63.214139|type:landmark|display=inline}} | code = | built = 1957 | builder = {{air force|USA}} | materials = | height = | used = 1958 – April 1965 | demolished = 1987 | condition = | ownership = | open_to_public = | controlledby = {{air force|USA}} | garrison = | current_commander = | commanders = | occupants = | battles = | events = | image2 = | caption2 = <!-- begin airfield information --> | r1-number = 08/26 | r1-length = {{Convert|1500|m|abbr=on}} | r1-surface = Gravel }}
'''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.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite report |title=Phase I Environmental Site Assessment: Former US Military Mid Canada Line Radar Site 212, Border Beacon, NL |publisher=Department of Environment and Conservation |author=GHD Group |pages=i–ii |url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/089758-RPT9-FINAL-Border-Beacon-Site-212-Report.pdf }}</ref> Border Beacon was a bistatic radar Doppler Detection Station on the Mid-Canada Line system of early-warning radar stations.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lswilson.ca/scs500.htm | title = Mid canada line}}</ref>
Opened in 1957, and fully operational in 1958,<ref>{{cite book | last1 = The NBC Group | title = A History of the Air Defence of Canada 1948-1997 | chapter = Mid-Canada Line | year = 1997 | publisher = Commander Fighter | isbn = 0-9681973-0-2}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite report |title=Phase III Environmental Site Assessment and Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment, Site 212, Border Beacon, NL |publisher=Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment |author=Stassinu Stantec Limited Partnership |date=7 May 2019 |url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/env-protection-impactedsites-borderbeacon-rpt-fin-121414998-phaseiiiesa-hhera-border-beacon-20190407.pdf }}</ref>
==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.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
==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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dhc-2.com/id1057.htm | title=C-GUBD with Goose Bay Air Service |website=dhc-2.com : The web site dedicated to the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver |first=Neil |last=Aird }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{NLMilitary|state=collapsed}}
Border Beacon Category:Meteorological stations Category:Radar stations of the United States Air Force Category:Installations of the United States Air Force in Canada Category:Military installations in Newfoundland and Labrador Category:Military installations closed in 1965 Category:Military installations established in 1957 Category:1957 establishments in Newfoundland and Labrador Category:1965 disestablishments in Newfoundland and Labrador Category:Defunct airports in Newfoundland and Labrador Category:Foreign military bases in Canada Category:Meteorological Service of Canada