Plane lands without landing gear at Brunswick airport, no injuries reported

A plane came down at Brunswick Executive Airport without its landing gear, sending emergency crews to 15 Terminal Road in Brunswick and leaving no one injured. Scanner reports confirmed there were no injuries after the April 25 landing, a close call that is rare in aviation and usually ends with damage to the aircraft.

The incident unfolded at Brunswick Landing, the former Brunswick Naval Air Station redevelopment site run by the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority. The public-use airport has been under heavy scrutiny over the past year because of repeated safety and environmental problems, making Friday’s gear-up landing especially notable for people who live, work and travel through Sagadahoc County.

That scrutiny began to intensify after an August 2024 firefighting-foam discharge at Brunswick Executive Airport sent more than 1,400 gallons of foam containing PFAS into a hangar and nearby pond and waterways. The spill triggered cleanup efforts and regulatory action that included the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and it led to new restrictions on foam use at the airport.

A later Maine report in March 2026 described a two-year study that tracked PFAS contamination after what it said was about 50,000 gallons of firefighting foam discharged at the former base in August 2024. The scale of that contamination has kept Brunswick Landing in the middle of an ongoing local and state conversation about airport safety, environmental cleanup and how to protect nearby communities from industrial runoff.

The airport has also dealt with fuel incidents. In April 2025, one report said about 50 gallons of kerosene-grade aviation fuel spilled at Brunswick Landing and was quickly contained, while another said as much as 15 to 20 gallons may have seeped into a storm drain. Those episodes reinforced how closely each new airport incident is watched, even when crews move quickly and the immediate hazard appears limited.

Friday’s landing did not produce injuries, but it added another emergency response to a place already shaped by contamination cleanup, oversight and public concern. For Brunswick Landing, the question now is how the aircraft lost its landing gear and whether the plane or runway suffered damage before operations settled back down at the airport.