the newest general aviation airport

"buttman" wrote in message
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People always say that one GA airport closes every week, yet no new GA
airports are opened. I was wondering, how literal is that second part?
Is the total number of new GA airport openings really zero? How long
has it been like that? If one were to identify the "newest" public use
GA airport, what year did it open? Sometimes in the 1970s? 1980s?


I know they are closing Indianapolis Metro and moving it a few miles north,
so that is a 1:1. There was Indianapolis Brookside which closed a couple
years ago and is now housing as well, so around here we haven't gained any
new GA airports, lost one and moved another.

buttman wrote:
If one were to identify the "newest" public use
GA airport, what year did it open? Sometimes in the 1970s? 1980s?

In my neck of the woods (AZ), Williams Gateway airport (formerly Williams
AFB) opened as a public use facility in the 90s. In the "completely new"
category, Lake Havasu, AZ closed their old lakeside airport and and built a
completely new facility outside of town, also back in the 90s. I liked the
old one better :-) Bullhead City, AZ built a new airport on the site of
their old airport.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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I was going to post about Phoenix Regional as a relatively new airport but I
don't know when it was built. Anyone else know?

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"JGalban via AviationKB.com" u32749@uwe wrote in message
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buttman wrote:
If one were to identify the "newest" public use
GA airport, what year did it open? Sometimes in the 1970s? 1980s?

In my neck of the woods (AZ), Williams Gateway airport (formerly Williams
AFB) opened as a public use facility in the 90s. In the "completely
new"
category, Lake Havasu, AZ closed their old lakeside airport and and built
a
completely new facility outside of town, also back in the 90s. I liked
the
old one better :-) Bullhead City, AZ built a new airport on the site of
their old airport.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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On Nov 23, 2:00 pm, "JGalban via AviationKB.com" u32749@uwe wrote:
buttman wrote:
If one were to identify the "newest" public use
GA airport, what year did it open? Sometimes in the 1970s? 1980s?

In my neck of the woods (AZ), Williams Gateway airport (formerly Williams
AFB) opened as a public use facility in the 90s. In the "completely new"
category, Lake Havasu, AZ closed their old lakeside airport and and built a
completely new facility outside of town, also back in the 90s. I liked the
old one better :-) Bullhead City, AZ built a new airport on the site of
their old airport.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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Socialism lives on in some GOP areas:

"What is now the Bolingbrook Clow International Airport was acquired
by the Village of
Bolingbrook in 2004. Bolingbrook's Clow International Airport was
built originally in the
late 1950's by Oliver Boyd Clow so he could fly his treasured 1948
Model A Navion
airplane. This little grass airstrip with humble beginnings was
replaced in the 1970's
with a 50- by 3400-foot lighted asphalt runway, and in 1973, became a
general aviation
airport named Clow International Airport. In 1989, Clow was named the
best privately
owned, public-use airport in Illinois, and in 1998, the thriving
little airport was sold to
developer Joe De Paulo. There are currently over 70,000 landings and
take-offs each
year, making it one of the most widely used general aviation airports
in Illinois.