The owner of a Quincy-based construction company recently purchased approximately 1,500 acres of former U.S. Air Force land in western Maine.

Jay Cashman, chairman of the board of Jay Cashman Inc., a heavy construction company, owns the Western Maine Realty firm that purchased the land for $730,000.

A Portland-based real estate firm with ties to a Massachusetts construction company has paid $730,000 for nearly 1,500 acres of former Air Force land in Moscow that was once home to a radar system.

The property hold four buildings that housed an Air Force’s radar system that watched the coastline for Soviet aircraft and ships from Greenland to Cuba, but was eliminated in the 1990s.

While no plans have been reported for the property, through an affiliated firm, Patriot Renewables, LLC, Cashman is a developer, owner and operator of commercial-scale wind energy projects. Patriot has an active development pipeline of wind projects in the northeast and is the lead owner and operator of Beaver Ridge Wind, a 4.5-megawatt wind power facility in Freedom, Maine.

According to Cashman’s website, Patriot currently has two more wind farms in Maine under development and is looking to others in the future. Cashman has the experience to both build and manage wind operations for other developers as well.