Small aircraft pilot reported tan airport runway lights are out of service but no NOTAM to alert pil...

Attributes
ACN	1267660
Time
Date	201505
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	TAN.Airport
State Reference	MA
Environment
Flight Conditions	Marginal
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60 Flight Crew Total 460 Flight Crew Type 280
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Incursion Taxiway

Narrative:

Came in to land in taunton (tan). There was a NOTAM out for beacon out of service; not runway lights. As I approached taunton; there were no runway lights working; just taxiway lights. I triggered the pilot controlled lighting (pilot controlled lighting) to try to get the runway lights to work but just saw the taxiway lights go through the low; medium; high intensity cycle. I elected that it was best given the circumstances and time to land on the taxiway. The flight terminated uneventfully. They are installing security cameras at the airport and I know they have shut the beacon off and it took 3 weeks before a NOTAM [was] issued. Now the runway lights are out of service without letting people know. There is an instrument approach to that runway and in an emergency situation someone unfamiliar with the field could be injured.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Small aircraft pilot reported TAN airport runway lights are out of service but no NOTAM to alert pilots of the outage.

Narrative: Came in to land in Taunton (TAN). There was a NOTAM out for beacon out of service; not runway lights. As I approached Taunton; there were no runway lights working; just taxiway lights. I triggered the pilot controlled lighting (PCL) to try to get the runway lights to work but just saw the taxiway lights go through the low; medium; high intensity cycle. I elected that it was best given the circumstances and time to land on the taxiway. The flight terminated uneventfully. They are installing security cameras at the airport and I know they have shut the beacon off and it took 3 weeks before a NOTAM [was] issued. Now the runway lights are out of service without letting people know. There is an Instrument Approach to that runway and in an emergency situation someone unfamiliar with the field could be injured.

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Small aircraft pilot reported tan airport runway lights are out of service but no NOTAM to alert pilots of the outage.