CONGRESS INITIATES 'STEALTH' EFFORT TO CLOSE RIALTO AIRPORT

No title There’s an under-the-radar attempt in Congress to close the Rialto, California, airport. But it hasn’t escaped AOPA’s attention. The bill was slipped in as a “stealth amendment” to the federal highway funding bill, now being negotiated in a House-Senate conference committee. The provision reportedly allows the airport to be sold to developers for…

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Do Your Homework Before You Fly

Several bills have been tabled in recent weeks calling for fines (ranging into six figures and certificate suspensions as long as seven years) for anyone busting the various restricted areas around D.C.

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McClellan-Palomar Airport- Evicted Pilots' Claims Against Airport Dismissed

Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Evicted pilots’ claims against airport dismissed
By BARBARA HENRY
The San Diego (CA) North County Times

CARLSBAD —- The Federal Aviation Administration has ruled San Diego County did not overstep its authority when it gave a new development company the exclusive right to massively remodel part of Carlsbad’s McClellan-Palomar Airport.

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TULARE AIRPORT LITIGATION UPDATE

In 2004 the California Pilots Association filed a lawsuit to keep a trucking terminal with above-ground fuel tanks from being built in the runway safety zone of Runway 13 of the Tulare Airport. Defendants are the City of Tulare and the Knight Transportation Corporation that has its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Nominee for Los Angeles Airport Panel Spurs Query

Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Nominee for Airport Panel Spurs Query
By Jennifer Oldham
The Los Angeles (CA) Times

The Los Angeles councilman who heads the committee overseeing the airports asked City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo on Tuesday whether a nominee to the Airport Commission had a conflict of interest.

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Public Says Miramar is the Answer to County's Airport Needs

Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Public says Miramar is the answer to county’s airport needs
By MARK WALKER
The San Diego (CA) North County Times

SAN DIEGO —- If not Lindbergh, make it Miramar. A group of 735 county residents has concluded that if downtown San Diego’s Lindbergh Field can’t serve the region’s long-term airline passenger and cargo needs, they’d support moving the troops out of Miramar Marine Corps Air Station and putting a new commercial airport at the storied military base.

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Camarillo Airport- Development East?

Wednesday, July 20, 2005
County to continue study of airport plan The Ventura County (CA) Star
Supervisors agreed Tuesday to allow further study of a proposal to limit an airspace easement at the Camarillo Airport.

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