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Who Chooses The "site" For An Airport?  
User currently offlineFaustino927 From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 263 posts, RR: 0
Posted (5 years 6 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2152 times:

I was wondering, with so many airports in this world, who chooses the site/land to build an airport. What is the process?


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User currently offline57AZ From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2550 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (5 years 6 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2146 times:

How the site was chosen was entirely dependent on the timeframe in which the airfield was established. Back in the 1920s and 1930s you literally just bought enough cleared land and put up buildings and facilities. State and federal regulations were relatively lax at that time. Locations such as farms were obviously well suited to airfield usage. Often the airport was created by a private aviator or aviation minded civic leader.

The airport at CHA is named after John Lovell-manager of the Hotel Patton. Lovell realized that commercial aviation would become very important and convinced the City of Chattanooga to purchase a large amount of farmland for the purpose of opening a commercial airport. That was done in the late 1920s. The current airport at CHA occupies only half of the property owned by the Chattanooga Airport Authority. Plans for the airport's expansion include a large jet maintenance center on the west side of the field and a parallel 10,000 foot runway. No land acquisition is planned, as the remaining undeveloped airport property can accomodate the expansion. All they need is a tenant for the maintenance facility and FAA funding for the runway.


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