Santa Monica can’t ban jets

A federal appeals court refused Friday to review a finding that Santa Monica can’t ban  jets from its airport because of safety concerns, according to a story in The Washington Post, which noted that Santa Monica had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review a 2009 decision by the FAA that a ban would violate terms of a land grant that said the city must make the airport available to all types of aircraft. The airport had sought to ban aircraft with approach speeds of about 139 mph or greater at maximum landing weight. The court noted that these categories are almost exclusively business and executive jets.