FAA "There to Help"

[Lawreston]

Surely a no-brainer for the town:

http://www.courant.com/community/news/nb/hc-plaairport0206.artfeb06,0,5900796.story

I was there several years ago -- nice operation.

HR

. . . . But it's a shame that the old (nearby) Johnny Cake airport was closed.

 

[TMetzinger]

I've been there several times - it's a convenient airport for the communities nearby. Good for the FAA to want to keep it alive, and I hope the city comes up with the money. Otherwise I'd be tempted to buy it if I could get it for 95K.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Mike, Kate and I were there in Mike's Cherokee 235 for the AOPA expo that was up there (2007). Very nice GA reliever, and gives the Hartford area a non-towered airport for those who like that sort of things. It seemed to be reasonably convenient to a lot of things.

 

[TangoWhiskey]

$1.9M for a 25,000 foot hangar. WHEW!

 

[Skip Miller]

. . . . But it's a shame that the old (nearby) Johnny Cake airport was closed.

JohnnyCake AKA Mountain Meadow was doomed. The land straddled two towns and the land in one town was owned by one person while the land in the other town was owned by somebody else. Getting all four entities (towns and land owners) on the same page proved impossible.

-Skip

 

[Lawreston]

JohnnyCake AKA Mountain Meadow was doomed. The land straddled two towns and the land in one town was owned by one person while the land in the other town was owned by somebody else. Getting all four entities (towns and land owners) on the same page proved impossible.

-Skip

Thanks for the added information, Skip. I was there on September 02, 2001. One of my flying friends up here needed to re-claim one of his daughters from a last-chance-visit with grandparents before school was to start. Eric's in-laws lived only a mile or so from Mountain Meadow. There was a really good family-type restaurant only a couple miles in the other direction, the on-airport restaurant(also said to be good) having closed for the Labor Day weekend.

But we couldn't get re-fueled at JohnnyCake, so we went to Robertson for fuel, and then on to the Hudson River where I got shots of WTC, Statue of Liberty, and the Enterprise. Who would have thought that 9 days later . . . .

HR