Archive for September 2013
Camarillo Airport – Push to Save Tower
Camarillo Airport officials hope to boost operations, protect control tower – With three weeks to go, a campaign to boost Camarillo Airport flight operations is about 8,600 comings and goings shy of its goal.
Airport officials want to break 150,000 takeoffs and landings by Sept. 30, the end of the federal fiscal year. They hope that will protect Camarillo’s air traffic control tower by pushing operations over a bar set by federal officials to determine possible tower closures.
Read MoreStockton airport (airline) volume declines
Passenger volume at Stockton Metropolitan Airport dropped in August, signaling the end of peak summer travel season, but the more than 5,500 travelers who departed for Las Vegas were the most in any August since Allegiant began operating at the airport in 2006, airport officials said Monday. The total was down from more than 7,300 departing passengers in both June and July.
Read MoreTruckee airport – Poll shows more favorable view
TRUCKEE, Calif. – Results from a scientific poll to help refine Truckee Tahoe Airport’s future vision reflect a significant jump in community favorability. San Mateo, Calif.-based Godbe Research found this summer that 37 percent of 500 residents interviewed “strongly” favor the airport, and 32 percent “somewhat” favor it. This is up from 2009 Godbe poll numbers of 24 percent and 30 percent, respectively.
Fresno Yosemite International Airport Receives $3.6 million Grant
Fresno Yosemite International Airport is getting a $3.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to finish a 360-foot runway extension required under federal safety regulations. – The money, announced by Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, is part of an annual Federal Aviation Administration entitlement program. “The city receives this approximate amount every year,” said Kevin Meikle, interim airports director for the city of Fresno. “Normally we get this grant much earlier in the year, but this year the sequestration delayed the award.”
Santa Maria Airport could be future launch site for drones
The Central Coast could become home to a drone launch site. The Santa Maria Airport’s Board of Directors met to consider joining with the Ventura County Department of Airports and the Indian Wells Valley Airport District, which have applied to be drone test sites.
The Santa Maria Airport would be a location where drone systems could be recovered, refueled and then re-launched.
The Federal Aviation Administration intends to start using drones in national airspace.
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