CITY HALL — The City Council voted unanimously to approve a sharp hike in landing fees Tuesday night that pro-aviation opponents call a thinly-veiled attempt to shutter Santa Monica Airport.
The
CALABASAS, Calif. — A second body was found Tuesday at a rugged site in the Santa Monica Mountains where a small planecrashed and burned after a midair collision with another small
CITY HALL — Pilots and flight school owners will keep a eye on the Airport Commission Monday night as it discusses for the first time a major change in landing fees
SMO — Before the Tuskegee Airmen or Amelia Earhart's head-turning escapades, there was Bessie Coleman.
"The air is the only place free from prejudices," Coleman once said,
CITY HALL — The Airport Commission wants to explore incentives for pilots to fly more quietly in the wake of a successful test of a muffler that cut some airplane noise
SMO — Preliminary results of a test measuring the sound reduction capacity of a muffler on a small airplane are in, and it looks like residents near Santa Monica Airport may
SMO — Santa Monica city officials, Justice Aviation and residents are collaborating on a possible solution to one of Santa Monica Airport's most vexing problems — the constant drone of
CITY HALL — Residents attacked city officials at the Airport Commission meeting Monday night for being tone deaf to community desires in their examination of the future of Santa Monica Airport,
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Santa Monica) on Tuesday sent a letter to Michael Huerta, acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to encourage expanded use of unleaded fuels to
SMO — Flights out of Santa Monica Airport dropped 11 percent in the first half of 2012 compared to the same time last year, and much of the reduction was related
CITY HALL — The City Council selected attorney Lael Rubin to fill a vacancy on the Airport Commission, sidestepping the desires of both anti-airport activists and the pilot community.
Rubin, who
SMO — The Santa Monica Airport Commission voted unanimously this week to recommend that the City Council put its weight behind an attempt by a West Los Angeles group to impose
