HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Everyone who attended the “public hearing” was very disappointed.  To avoid possible hostilities and conflicts, the meeting was set up so that interested parties were forced to place their comments in written form or on a tape recording! 

I’m not even sure if this constituted a legal public hearing.  Everyone I spoke to was very disappointed and left almost immediately once they found out that their opinions would not be heard by our council members in a public forum.  “I guess our opinion really doesn’t matter, I suppose the council is going to do what ever they want to do” was the comment I heard from one aircraft owner.

I spoke for quite some time at the “gathering” to Aubrey Adcock who is with the engineering firm responsible for the airport relocation study.  A couple of jewels that came out of the conversation were that the FAA will not be funding any new ILS installations.  Our foggy runway will have to depend on GPS approaches only.  How low on the approach you will be able to go is an unknown factor at this time.  Another conversation was with Bill Bell, the FAA representative for our region who said that there was no funding available for any airport relocation project for several years.  As far as a timetable for any relocation he pointed to the Benton Arkansas project which has been going on now for 3 years with a projected completion of 2007.   (Seven years from start to finish.)

Our hats go off to Mr. Robins.  Mr. Robins has been a fixture in Conway and at Cantrell Field for many, many years.  Mr. Robins made his solo flight in 1976 and has been a very active pilot and aircraft owner since then.  Mr. Frank has recently sold his pride and joy Bonanza and has many pilot accessories that he would like to sell.  Please give Mr. Robins a call at 329-2866 if you are interested in purchasing any of his pristine pilot accessories.

A recent letter from the FAA informed me that the identifier for Cantrell Field will change from M03 to CWS in late February.  The explanation given was that the identifier conflicted with an airport in Missouri.  No mention if the designator for our NDB would change.  Stand by on this one; I’m sure there will be a NOTAM posted soon with further information.

Conway Aviation Services, established as Cope's Aircraft Services, Inc. in 1993, celebrated our 4th Anniversary of ownership of the Conway Municipal Airport Fixed Base Operation (FBO) in October of 2003.

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