Fri, May 26, 2006
EAA's John Hovan On Closing Florida's Opa-locka West
Airport
As Aero-News reported
earlier, the folks who run Florida's Miami
International Airport are hungry for cash... and they think they've
found an answer: turn the Opa-locka West airport into a limerock
mine.
Officials at MIA say the small two-runway airport -- which has
been closed since Hurricane Wilma last year -- is rarely used, and
is far more valuable as a source for minerals needed to make
concrete and roadfill... especially as a federal judge looks at
Florida's current source of the material, the so-called "Lake
Belt", for possible environmental impact violations.
John Hovan is a member of the EAA's ultralight council... and
president of the South Florida Fun Flyers. He spoke late Thursday
with ANN's Jim Campbell. Hovan tells ANN that closing Opa-locka
West would mean the loss of the only open North-South runway in the
county... as well as much-needed airport for recreational
flyers.
This feature is in addition to our daily news briefing --
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Aero-Briefing.
ANN Daily Touch N Go: 05.26.06
(ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing:
05.26.06 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature -- EAA's John
Hovan: 05.26.06 (ANN Special Feature, with John
Hovan of the EAA on the proposed closing of Opa-locka West
airport.)
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