Meck Island

 military airbase, abandoned / shut down, heliport

Originally built in the 1960s as part of the Nike-X/Sentinel/Safeguard projects, the runway hosted STOL aircraft like the De Havilland Canada Caribou and Otter. Considered unsafe due to the prevailing winds from the west, the runway was decommissioned.

Meck Island (Marshallese: Meik, [mʲeik][1]) is part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Ralik Chain in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2,100 nautical miles (3,900 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Meck is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, and a launch site for anti-ballistic missiles and launch vehicles is based there. It was originally developed in support of the Sentinel program of the 1960s, and hosted a radar site and launchers for Sprint and Spartan missiles. It has been used for a variety of tests since then, including the Safeguard program, Homing Overlay Experiment, Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, THAAD and others.