The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE

"Skylune" wrote in
lkaboutaviation.com:

Now that I have again provided the amount of annual funding deriving
from GA fuel taxes (including AV GAS and Jet A), compare that to 2005
capital grants to airports by looking at the ACTUAL 2005 DATA below.
(Note that these figures DO NOT include the $150K annual operating
subsidy that many GA airports receive.)

DAMN: the subsidies are enormous, as every informed person knows....

http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraff..._histories/med
ia/grants_2005.pdf




A quick look at this report for airports I'm personally familiar with
shows that you have no comprehension whatsoever of what you are talking
about.

Several of the airports listed as GA are served by air freight
carriers such as FedEx, which operate under Part 91, which governs GA.

One interesting entry is for Moffett Field, formerly a Navy base. It
is listed as GA but it is not open to the public. It's use is pretty much
NASA and air freight from Lockheed. When POTUS comes to the area, it is
used by Air Force One.

Sacramento Mather, formerly an Air Force base, listed as R, is where
air freight to the Sacremento area was moved to from Sacramento
International.

Other "GA" airports receiving grants are CDF (California Department of
Forestry) fire bomber bases.

Many of the environmental studies being funded by the AIP grants are
mandated by the federal government.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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