Plymouth Municipal Airport Manager Bill Sheley updated the Plymouth Board of Public Works last week that the 2022 Discretionary Funding is imminent from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). About $268M will be divided among airports across the country; but Sheley said that he believed the airport would be designated funding for paving the taxiway in the amount of approximately $3M.
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The Plymouth Municipal Airport was recently awarded $144,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for the rehabilitation of an existing aircraft hangar.
Continue readingThe Plymouth City Council members opened a public hearing Monday night to hear comments about a proposed additional appropriation request by the Plymouth Municipal Airport.
Continue readingThe FAA recently announced that the Plymouth Municipal Airport is the recipient of a $1,062,970 grant to construct a taxiway.
Continue readingThe Alpha Flight School at the Plymouth Municipal Airport received the 141 Certificate Monday morning from the FAA.
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The Plymouth Municipal Airport’s spending is drawing concerns from the city’s clerk-treasurer, but airport officials expect the facility to be revenue-positive within a few years.
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The Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety members reopened a discussion concerning the waiver of rent to Alpha Flight at the Plymouth Municipal Airport.
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Plymouth Municipal Airport Manager Bill Sheley displayed the airport’s 2019 Airport of the Year award at the Plymouth City Council meeting Monday night.
Continue readingThe Plymouth Municipal Airport has been named the Indiana Airport of the Year in 2019, presented by Aviation Indiana.
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The Plymouth City Council members took action on Monday to transfer funds within the Aviation Department fund to cover a shortfall.
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Plymouth Municipal Airport Manager Bill Sheley updated the Plymouth Board of Public Works Safety members on an upcoming long-awaited project.
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Plymouth Municipal Airport officials and the instructors of the Alpha Flight invited prospective aviation students and members of the public to learn more about a new class available to high school students in the 2019-2020 school year.
Officials at the Plymouth Municipal Airport are ready to get several projects off the ground!
Plymouth High School will soon be offering courses in Education Professions, Cybersecurity, and Aviation. The school board Monday approved the addition of six new high school courses for the 2019-2020 school year.
While presenting Plymouth City Council with an ordinance to amend the fee schedule for the Department of Aviation, City Attorney Sean Surrisi recommended that members consider suspending the rules and adopting the ordinance on all three readings.
When members met last Monday, Surrisi explained that the Aviation Board recently approved a few changes to the fee schedule that had to come before the city council before they could be officially implemented. A $10 increase to hangar rent was proposed, shifting the rent from $85 to $95. Continue reading
Plymouth Airport Manager Bill Sheley asked the city council this week for an exception in its firearm laws in order to address the hazards geese pose at the airport.
He noted that the birds cause a serious danger to aircraft due to the possibility of a mid-air collision. Sheley said the airport has maintained a federal migratory bird depredation permit for several years. The permit allows the airport manager to eliminate the threat of geese. Sheley said he is unable to take any geese as the airport is in the city limits and there is an ordinance regulating the discharge of firearms in the city limits.
Visitors to the City of Plymouth will soon have some help finding their way around. The city is working with North American Signs to add wayfinding signage along Michigan Street, Oak Drive, Jefferson Street, and other heavily-trafficked areas.
Today’s the last day on the job for Plymouth Airport Manager Dave Lattimer. He’s retiring after seven years on the job.
Dave Lattimer will be retiring at the end of the month after serving seven years as the Airport Manager at the Plymouth Municipal Airport.
A celebration gathering is scheduled for Friday, June 30 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the airport.
The test mode time frame for the Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) at the Plymouth Municipal Airport has been certified by the FAA and will be operational this month.
The AWOS III Weather Station will provide temperature, dew point, barometric pressures, wind direction, wind velocity, bottom and top of cloud height, and precipitation. The information will be available to the flying public, pilots flying under instrument conditions and pilots flying into the Plymouth Municipal Airport. This is vital for pilots as they can monitor more specific weather conditions in Plymouth and the surrounding area so they can better measure their landing decision height. Currently, the closest weather information pilots obtain is what South Bend’s Weather Station provides.
