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Air traffic control tower cuts to be unveiled Friday

The Federal Aviation Administration is to announce on Friday which air traffic control towers will be closed because of $85 billion in mandatory federal spending cuts.

Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, which averages one flight operation every three minutes in summer, is among the control towers that could be closed under the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration.

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