Court Stops Santa Monica Runway Destruction

On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 6:16:25 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 7:00:02 AM UTC-5, Larry Dighera wrote:

Initial plans for the runway shortening are mostly for restriping,
Silversmith said – modifications that would not be very difficult to
reverse. Should the pending lawsuits be successful, the city will be
obligated to return the runway to its previous length, at additional
costs to its taxpayers.
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Santa Monica Department of Public Works

Please be advised that the construction schedule to shorten the Santa
Monica runway has been adjusted by nine (9) days due to delays in
vendor mobilization of equipment and personnel. The new project start
date is Wednesday, October 18, 2017. ...

Stelios Makndes
Airport Director

Capistrano in Orange County, California ?? When did that country clubber flyboy, priviledged enclave get bulldozed ??

Well..well, another hobbyist weekend playland went bye-bye:

"With the dust settled on establishing the airport, other problems began. In April 1974, a small plane lost power on takeoff and flipped into the creek bed near the end of the runway. By 1976, complaints were starting to come from new developed homeowners, and a shutdown of the airport was considered. A similar closure was considered five years earlier as now the airport had become too small for the developing aircraft, and numbers of aircraft now located there dwindled down to 60.

Then the unthinkable happened. On Memorial Day weekend, May 28, 1977, a 5-year-old girl was killed when she was struck by the propeller of a crashed plane. The plane was towing a banner and crashed shortly after takeoff. The young girl was riding a bicycle along a path bordering San Juan Creek.

The airfield was ordered to be shut down a month after the accident as details of the crash emerged. Not only was the pilot uninjured but he was not properly licensed, had no permission to tow banners and fled to Jamaica after the incident. The airport was closed in 1978. Now, all that remains is the road leading to the airport, Avenida Aeropuerto, and the street where the runway once laid, Calle Aviador."

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