How is this possible?

Almost all new airports are old airports that were not official.

Insurance is more nearly affordable if your airplane is limited to
operations at FAA designated airports. Some owners have been finding
it cheaper to make their airports official than pay for off-airport
landing insurance.

Also, lots of local governments have been putting pressure on private
airport owners to bring the facility "up to code" and make it an
official airport. Most keep them private, but some actually go public.

I'm personally aware of 3 instances of this in Michigan.

So, I'm thinking the AOPA doesn't count them because they're not new
airports, they're old airports with new paperwork. But that's a guess.

"Brien K. Meehan" wrote in message
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Insurance is more nearly affordable if your airplane is limited to
operations at FAA designated airports. Some owners have been finding
it cheaper to make their airports official than pay for off-airport
landing insurance.


???. I don't pay more to land at grass strips and private facilities.

Deb

--
1946 Luscombe 8A (his)
1948 Luscombe 8E (hers)
1954 Cessna 195B, restoring (ours)

Interesting, but not really realted to what I said.

"Brien K. Meehan" wrote in message
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Interesting, but not really realted to what I said.

I believe you stated, "Insurance is more nearly affordable if your airplane
is limited to
operations at FAA designated airports. "

That's not true. I fly out of cow pastures which are not "FAA designated
airports," and it doesn't effect my insurance.

Of course, that's my experience. Yours may differ ;-)

Deb

--
1946 Luscombe 8A (his)
1948 Luscombe 8E (hers)
1954 Cessna 195B, restoring (ours)

Ah. Your comment referred to grass strips and private facilities,
which could very well be FAA certified airports.

Every insurance policy I've dealt with, prior to my current one,
excludes operations at any facility which isn't certified by the FAA as
an airport. My current one, which doesn't, is mega expensive.

Maybe this is only the case for aircraft with a hull value. Or ones
built during this millenium. ;-)

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"Brien K. Meehan" wrote:

Ah. Your comment referred to grass strips and private facilities,
which could very well be FAA certified airports.

Every insurance policy I've dealt with, prior to my current one,
excludes operations at any facility which isn't certified by the FAA as
an airport. My current one, which doesn't, is mega expensive.

Maybe this is only the case for aircraft with a hull value. Or ones
built during this millenium. ;-)


When I still had the 182 the insurance I had cost me $1400/year. I
could land anywhere I wanted...gravel bars, glaciers, airports...no
restrictions what so ever.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

I have no restrictions on my Mooney. I have landed on the beach in
Mexico.

-Robert

Brien K. Meehan wrote:

Every insurance policy I've dealt with, prior to my current one,
excludes operations at any facility which isn't certified by the FAA as
an airport. My current one, which doesn't, is mega expensive.

None of my policies did. My agent once called to ask me if I ever landed on
grass fields. I told him yes, and he had the policy changed to remove an
exclusion that the underwriter had added. No difference in cost that time, either.

The aircraft was a 1995 Maule. I had it insured for hull values ranging between
$63,000 and $70,000. My last policy cost a bit over $1,200, IIRC.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

"Brien K. Meehan" wrote in message
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Ah. Your comment referred to grass strips and private facilities,
which could very well be FAA certified airports.

Every insurance policy I've dealt with, prior to my current one,
excludes operations at any facility which isn't certified by the FAA as
an airport. My current one, which doesn't, is mega expensive.

Maybe this is only the case for aircraft with a hull value. Or ones
built during this millenium. ;-)

Mine has never limited landing locations and my insurance costs are very
reasonable. I would find such a limitation totally unaceptable.

Hmm. I was starting to think this might be a low-time issue (which is
why it used to apply to me), but the one guy I know who certified his
airport said that insurance was an issue, and he's got a metric
boatload of hours. Hmm. Dunno.