Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60; Flight Crew Total 460; Flight Crew Type 280
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Incursion Taxiway
General None Reported / Taken
Airport; Human Factors
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.
Small aircraft pilot reported TAN airport runway lights are out of service but no NOTAM to alert pilots of the outage.