99% of all the airports we use today date from 1946 or
earlier. Most of those are WWII military training fields.



"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in
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news | In article
,
| Jose wrote:
|
| but the airports won't be threatened with closure if
GA is
| expanding and healthy.
|
| Sure they will. The economic forces are the same - even
a healthy GA
| population at a small airport that is in a
developmentally desirable
| area will not make enough money to fend this off.
Granted, healthy GA
| contributes economically many other ways, but those ways
are mostly
| hidden and indirect, making airports still an easy
target.
|
| Jose
|
| What we also have to remember is that real estate
developers represent
| the biggest political money contributors to state and
local elections in
| the US. As such, they get first ear of the politicians
whom they
| represent. The developers also create "noise sensitive"
groups to do
| their dirty work.
|
| We all have to remain vigilant and step on all the plans
to "make better
| use" of our local airport.