Archive for January 2005

For all those who have stopped at Corona Airport (AJO) for the cheap fuel and Meta’s cooking, please check out www.kcal9.com and click on Video on the left. Scroll down, hit MORE VIDEOS and continue doing this for a few pages until you come to January 11, “Rising Waters Engulf Corona Airport.” Sit back and be amazed.

The man generally acclaimed as being responsible for the Hail Mary military victory in the 1991 Desert Storm operation has cheated death again — this time as a passenger aboard a Gulfstream G3 headed into the Lake Tahoe Airport in California.

Sunday, January 30, 2005
Council continues airport growth debate
Three members to seek smaller expansion, more details of project.
By Felix Sanchez
The Long Beach (CA) Press-Telegram

LONG BEACH – The City Council on Tuesday will resume debate over proposed terminal improvements at Long Beach Airport, with three council members scheduled to ask the staff to prepare significantly smaller plans for the project.

Saturday, January 29, 2005
Development agreement back in airport’s court
Airport commissioners will need to approve changes made to development agreement passed by council.
By Mark R. Madler
The Burbank (CA) Leader

AIRPORT DISTRICT – Now that the City Council has approved a development plan for Bob Hope Airport, it’s up to the Burbank-Glendale Pasadena Airport Authority to ratify it.

Saturday, January 29, 2005
Airport plan draws crowd
By Bonita Brewer
The Contra Costa (CA) Times

Controversy over plans to upgrade the Livermore Municipal Airport is likely to pull a huge Tri-Valley crowd to a Livermore City Council meeting Monday evening.

Frequency Change Announcement

Columbia Airport (O22) and Pine Mountain Lake Airport (E45) are changing their CTAF frequencies.

A long-time defender of Zamperini Field in Torrance, California, has been appointed to the Torrance Airport Commission where he will advise the Torrance City Council on airport matters. Jim Gates was AOPA?s first Airport Support Network volunteer and won AOPA’s Laurence P. Sharples Perpetual Award in 1998 for his advocacy efforts. Gates has experience serving…

I am a Research Assistant for Stanford University and am working on a study that is examining pilot performance in regards to aging.

Dear Mr. White

The proposed Bankers Hill Townhomes building at 1st and Maple cannot go ahead at the height intruding into the AAOZ (Airport Approach Overlay Ordinance).

In order to accommodate high density housing off the end of Watsonville’s (WVI) east-west runway, the Watsonville City’s Community Development Director proposed moving runway protection zones (RPZs) further into the Airport.