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At 14:15 30 August 2019, wrote:
On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 2:15:04 AM UTC-4, Paul T wrote: At 13:30 29 August 2019, wrote: =3D20 and Ridge Soaring has been on the 'for sale' market for how=20 long?=3D20 Seems to me you need to think of a plan to buy some of=20 these=3D20 properties up and establish non profit clubs at them -maybe a=20 'culture=3D20 change' is required in the US. Problem is real estate prices. In the old days you could buy a big=20 enough =3D piece of property for a small enough amount of money to run a=20 soaring opera=3D tion as a hobby business. Perhaps SSA should do more fundraising specifica=3D lly for purchasing airports? Or spend the money lobbying the=20 gov't to bu=3D y airports for our use(only half joking.) The Hanggliding/PG crowd=20 spends =3D a bunch of their resources securing real estate. They've also unfortunatel=3D y had to go into the insurance business themselves, which is a=20 terrible out=3D come, but I understand they didn't have much choice. =20 =20 Real estate prices are also high in Europe yet clubs still manage to=20 purchase airfields....... Don't you guys have zoning laws that say once an airport or cheese shop or = whatever the land use was it has to stay that way forever? Thus keeping pr= ices for old airfields reasonable? Not cheap, reasonable. Some American c= lubs do buy their own airports but there is a difference between a few hund= red thousand for a rural airport and a few million for the examples we have= here. Don't know where you heard that? In the Uk they are turning most old airfields and some active ones into housing or industrial estates -prime prices. One can always find excuses on ways not how to - maybe some of those mega rich flyboys you have in the USA like Tito could help out? I think Lasham was £1.5 million some years ago when it was purchased.? |
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Seminole Lake Gliderport for sale
At 14:15 30 August 2019, wrote:
On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 2:15:04 AM UTC-4, Paul T wrote: At 13:30 29 August 2019, wrote: =3D20 and Ridge Soaring has been on the 'for sale' market for how=20 long?=3D20 Seems to me you need to think of a plan to buy some of=20 these=3D20 properties up and establish non profit clubs at them -maybe a=20 'culture=3D20 change' is required in the US. Problem is real estate prices. In the old days you could buy a big=20 enough =3D piece of property for a small enough amount of money to run a=20 soaring opera=3D tion as a hobby business. Perhaps SSA should do more fundraising specifica=3D lly for purchasing airports? Or spend the money lobbying the=20 gov't to bu=3D y airports for our use(only half joking.) The Hanggliding/PG crowd=20 spends =3D a bunch of their resources securing real estate. They've also unfortunatel=3D y had to go into the insurance business themselves, which is a=20 terrible out=3D come, but I understand they didn't have much choice. =20 =20 Real estate prices are also high in Europe yet clubs still manage to=20 purchase airfields....... Don't you guys have zoning laws that say once an airport or cheese shop or = whatever the land use was it has to stay that way forever? Thus keeping pr= ices for old airfields reasonable? Not cheap, reasonable. Some American c= lubs do buy their own airports but there is a difference between a few hund= red thousand for a rural airport and a few million for the examples we have= here. Don't know where you heard that? In the Uk they are turning most old airfields and some active ones into housing or industrial estates -prime prices. One can always find excuses on ways not how to - maybe some of those mega rich flyboys you have in the USA like Tito could help out? I think Lasham was £1.5 million some years ago when it was purchased.? |
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