Grumman Corp.’s giant flight-test facility in Calverton was always corporate and straight laced – a place where Navy and Marine jets were tested for battle. But imagine this place as a spot where marijuana is grown?
Once, Navy F-14 fighters and A-6 bombers roared off its runways, as engineers and corporate managers ran the test numbers. The Calverton field has been closed since 1996, its hangars and buildings empty, rusted and in disrepair. Grumman, formerly Long Island’s largest employer and the Navy’s major supplier of jets, was sold to Los Angeles-based Northrop Corp. in 1994.
