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N94 Airport may expand into mobile home community, locals supportive
Airport Neighbors appear favorable to small town airport
expansion, saying they recognize the airport is important to the local community. The Carlisle, Pennsylvania airport [N94] currently has a mobile home community right against its runway. This small town airport would love to expand (even put in a parallel taxiway) but it is hemmed in with an Interstate highway on one side of the runway and the mobile homes on the other. Due to its privately owned status, it has not had much luck in securing grants to make improvements. Still, even some Citations do land on its 4004 x 40 foot runway, with non standard markings. It's a great little airport for a small town, but it needs more help. Now the airport owners say they would be willing to buy some of the mobile home properties in order to facilitate improvements. Surprisingly, owners are positive of the plan, saying they realize the airport is necessary for the success of Cumberland county. Carlisle is also home to the US Army War College, Dickinson College, and Penn State's Law School. Recently, the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority has said that it would be interested in buying the airport, which would make the airport eligbile for more public grants. The SARAA has also been interested in the Chambersburg Airport to the south, which would save this airport. ------------------------ Article: http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2...ews/news01.txt Excerpt: Airport may expand south By David Blymire, March 17, 2004 Business Airport of Carlisle could expand into a neighboring mobile home and townhouse community. The airport unveiled five possible design scenarios Tuesday picturing a new runway and separate taxiway set up in a variety of configurations as well as a new hanger and office complex with aircraft tie-down facilities. Several designs showed the airport expanding south into the neighborhood. Residents: Idea fine But that didn't seem to bother residents who turned out at hangar 12 to view the five concepts. "I'm all for it," said Lance Graham of Robin Drive at the western end of the existing runway. Graham, a father of three children, said he believes an expanded airport will contribute to a stronger Cumberland County economy. "My kids have grown up in this community," he said. "There's nothing here for them." A key question to be answered is whether a 4,300-foot runway will work at the existing site, said Ronald Deck of L. Robert Kimball and Associates, the firm that designed the options. "Now, it's just looking at the concepts, understanding that there are positives and negatives" with each, he said. Common features The options all feature a 75-foot-wide runway with a separate taxiway. Several options call for the addition of 300 feet to the end of the runway. One option would extend the runway east across Petersburg Road. Another option would use the existing runway as the taxiway and build a new runway to the south of the current runway with a 300-foot extension at the west end. Another would build a new runway and taxiway parallel with Interstate 81. Deck said the 300-foot extension is not being sought to allow larger aircraft into the facility but allow aircraft already based at Carlisle to take off at their maximum weight. If houses, churches or other buildings fall within the 500-foot-wide "runway protection zone" at either end of the rebuilt runway, the property owners would be approached with an offer to buy the properties at fair market value, Deck said. However, such sales "are not mandatory," he said, adding the properties would not be condemned. If a property owner refuses to sell, the airport would seek a right of first refusal for possible future purchase of the property, he said. Mechanic favors jobs Doug Crout, who lives on Meals Drive near the east end of the runway, said his only concern is, "Where would they relocate my mobile home?" But he said he favors an airport expansion to improve local job opportunities. Crout, an unemployed airline mechanic whose resume includes experience with Allegheny Airlines, said he would discuss the possibilities with his wife and neighbors before submitting written comments to the airport. He would want to know whether the airport would buy his plot, pay to relocate his mobile home and put his family up during the relocation. Airport co-owner Jim Kingsborough said those questions will have to be worked out. "It's important to keep this airport and improve to new standards," he said. He added other property owners have expressed an interest in selling to the airport. The next step will be to choose one design from the five scenarios presented Tuesday and create a more detailed expansion plan, Kingsborough said. |
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