Posts Tagged ‘SMO’
NBAA: Block City's Latest Request To Dismiss The Part 16 Petition
NBAA: FAA Should Block City’s Latest Request To Dismiss The Part 16 Petition
On Aug. 28, NBAA and several other parties joined in calling upon the FAA to deny the latest move by the city of Santa Monica to side-step grant-assurance obligations involved with the operation of embattled Santa Monica Municipal Airport (KSMO).
Read MoreSanta Monica – Big Money Behind Closing Airport Lose Round One
Supporters of closing Santa Monica Airport lose round in court – In a setback for opponents of Santa Monica Airport, a Los Angeles judge has
dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a November ballot measure to protect the facility from closure..
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Luis A. Lavin threw out the case filed in May by an anti-airport group that claimed Measure D was misleading, poorly vetted by city officials and violated the state Constitution and elections code.
Read MoreSanta Monica Airport is an Asset
Have you had discussions with those who are misimnformed about the value of SMO, or other airports? Check out this extremely well done video on SMO and educate yourself and others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ78vL16FvA&feature=youtu.be
Read MoreWhat You Can Do to Help Save Santa Monica Airport
If you have been following this ongoing issue, you know that the City of Santa Monica, driven by “Special Interests”, has been trying to close this airport for years. Why? That’s easy. Regardless of what the city says, it’s really about money.
Special Interest groups will make millions off of developing the land and the city stands to make money too.
The city is skillfully hiding these efforts behind safety issues, unproven health issues, and false accusations of the airport costing taxpayer’s money. Of course the city hasn’t told the taxpayers that they are not counting all of the revenue from the airport, because then taxpayers would know that the airport actually does support itself.
Read MoreOpen letter to Dianne Feinstein regarding SMO
Open letter to Dianne Feinstein seeking assistance on maintaining the Santa Monica Airport as part of the state’s and nation’s transport infrastructure.
Santa Monica Sues FAA to Close Airport
Santa Monica officials sue FAA to gain control of city’s airport Suit seeks declaration that the city holds title to the site containing the oldest continuously operating airport in L.A. County. (CalPilots Editor – Time for the FAA to step up and put an end to this constant airport harrassment by Santa Monica)
Read MoreAOPA calls lawsuit to close Santa Monica Airport meritless
Officials at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) say a federal lawsuit filed Oct. 31 by the City of Santa Monica against the FAA lacks “any merit in law.” In its lawsuit, the Santa Monica City Council asks the court to give the city clear title to the site of the Santa Monica Municipal…
Read MoreObservations and invitations
Attached to the main administration building at the Santa Monica Airport in Southern California is an observation deck. It’s a wide concrete structure with a curved metal railing that allows excellent views of the area, reaching from the Hollywood sign in the northeast all the way around to the Pacific Ocean on the southwest. A…
Read MoreSanta Monica Continues Attack on Airport
The job of an Airport Commission is supposed to be the promotion and protection of their airport. Unless, as in the case of the Santa Monica Airport Commission, the commission is stacked by the city with non-aviation experience anti-airport types whose real mission is to close the airport.
Santa Monica Continues its Quest to Illegally Close its Airport
AIN Blog: Goodbye SMO – The general aviation industry in the U.S. lost a key battle last night when the Santa Monica city council voted to impose higher landing fees, not just on transient aircraft but on all aircraft that use the airport. Starting August 1, even a Cessna 172 based at Santa Monica airport (SMO) flown by a local student or rental pilot will be assessed $10.96 for each landing. For training operations, that means a student pilot will end up paying $10.96 for every landing or touch-and-go. A typical business jet flying into SMO, say a Hawker 850XP, will pay $120.56, up from $45.54. Movie actor, airplane and helicopter owner-pilot Harrison Ford, who keeps his fleet at SMO, will be paying a lot more to fly from now on.
(CalPilots Editor’s Note: There are abundant monetary resources associated with the aviation community at SMO. It’s time that they organize a legal challenge of the City’s continual harassment of the airport, starting with a complete audit of all aviation related monies collected at SMO. We believe that the the City’s ongoing claim of running in deficit will be proved erroneous once the numbers are reviewed by expertise other than the current anti-airport groups).
