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Re: [TowerTalk] SteppIr's suck

To: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr@arrl.net>,"Roger Halstead" <nra@rogerhalstead.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] SteppIr's suck
From: "Richard M. Gillingham" <rmoodyg@bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:41:39 -0400
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How 'bout Meigs Field in Chicago?  Daley did it in, didn't he?

Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr@arrl.net>
To: "Roger Halstead" <nra@rogerhalstead.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>; <ny6dx@netscape.net>; <K2EK@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] SteppIr's suck


> 
> On May 12, 2006, at 12:30 AM, Roger Halstead wrote:
> 
>> We had that too, but when they found that because part of the land  
>> had been
>> purchased with federal money they would have to pay it back "AT  
>> CURRENT
>> MARKET VALUE" and not just that portion opinions began to change.  
>> Also part
>> of it was donated with deed restrictions.  I think it would have  
>> run close
>> to the whole city budgett to pay off the feds and even the  
>> complainers shut
>> up after that.
> 
> It's actually worse than that, Roger. If a municipality accepts FAA  
> money, then they have to agree to operate the airport for a long  
> period of time (typically 20-25 years). It carries the stipulation  
> that they have to keep it up to standards.
> 
> More than once, a town has gotten FAA money, improved the airport,  
> then after a few years gets overtures from developers looking for  
> cheap land. They convince the town to close the airport and develop  
> it. The town then goes to ask the FAA how much they need to pay back.
> 
> Years and years ago, the FAA might go for this. But not recently.  
> They get the AOPA, EAA and other alphabet organizations breathing  
> down their neck, and the FAA says nothing doing -- you've got to  
> continue to operate the airport.
> 
> 
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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