The grant will be used to add 400 feet to the airstrip just north of the glacier’s face. Improvements also call for cutting cottonwood trees an additional 200 feet, which will yield “a reasonably safe bush strip,” according to officials with the Recreational Aviation Foundation.
Airport
Calls to close KHFD ignore the true value of the airport
What is often missed when calculating the value of a facility like Brainard Airport is its educational and vocational worth. Its profound capacity to create opportunity for individuals young and old, from all walks of life, who choose to involve themselves in aviation as a hobby or a career, is undeniable.
ATP Flight School opens new training center in Pittsburgh
The new location at Allegheny County Airport (KAGC) in West Mifflin, Pa., about 10 miles from downtown Pittsburgh, is ATP Flight School’s 70th nationwide.
KRHV has been a target for decades
Makes me think, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Cutter Aviation acquires KGTU FBO
Cutter Aviation is the new owner of AeroJet FBO at Georgetown Municipal Airport (KGTU) in Texas.
Pilot has trouble turning on runway lights at KSQL
Our aircraft was not able to turn the lights on after multiple attempts. Another C172 entered the pattern shortly after initiating the go-around. That aircraft was able to get the lights to come on.
KHTO to become private use airport
Long Island’s East Hampton Airport (KHTO) will temporarily close March 1, reopening three days later as a “new airport,” a private-use facility subject to prior permission required conditions and other restrictions.
New owner for Phoenix FBO
Jackson Jet Center is poised to take over operations at Swift Aviation at KPHX Jan. 26, 2022.
Snow doesn’t stop volunteers from cleaning up WI23
Volunteers from the Recreational Aviation Foundation and the local town cleared four acres of brush and burned it, and cut and removed 50 trees. All this work is in preparation for the field to being listed as “public use.”