NEWS
By Ryan Davis and Ryan Davis,SUN STAFF | January 21, 2004
About 200 people turned out for an Anne Arundel County Council meeting last night to support the previously maligned plan to transform a west county airport into a housing development of condominiums and town homes. In its preliminary proposal, Polm Cos. of Millersville calls for 641 units at Suburban Airport, a Laurel airstrip that is home to nearly 70 planes. Before Rick Polm can build the development, dubbed Riverwood, the county would need to rezone the land off Brock Bridge Road. "This project is an outstanding example of what should be done to help the current housing crisis," Robert Johnston, a vice president with the Anne Arundel County Association of Realtors, told the council last night.
NEWS
By Rona Kobell and Rona Kobell,SUN STAFF | February 15, 2002
Two months after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted all flying restrictions at Tipton Airport, those operating the former Army airfield are not looking back. They say they're getting past losses incurred during the month when the federal government closed airports near Washington after the attacks Sept. 11 and the two subsequent months when flights were severely restricted. "In our case, we kind of made the decision to bite the bullet, if you will, and move on," said Tipton spokesman David Almy.
NEWS
By Rona Kobell and Rona Kobell,SUN STAFF | February 15, 2002
Two months after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted all flying restrictions at Tipton Airport, those operating the former Army airfield are not looking back. They say they're getting past losses incurred during the month when the federal government closed airports near Washington after the attacks Sept. 11 and the two subsequent months when flights were severely restricted. "In our case, we kind of made the decision to bite the bullet, if you will, and move on," said Tipton spokesman David Almy.
NEWS
By Rona Kobell and Rona Kobell,SUN STAFF | December 21, 2001
For much of the morning, Glenn Clevenger repeated himself as he answered the phone at Suburban Airport. "Hello? Yes, we're open now. No, there are no restrictions now." One by one, pilots strolled back into the Laurel airport's lounge yesterday, smiling -- for the first time in 100 days, they could fly again. "I can't believe it! We're back in the air," shrieked Jim Williamson, who has kept his Navion single-engine plane at Suburban since 1972. The scene replayed itself at Freeway Airport in Bowie and at Maryland Airport in Indian Head.
BUSINESS
By Robert Little and Robert Little,SUN STAFF | October 24, 1999
Suburban Airport doesn't really have a lounge, it has two yard-sale sofas and a coffee pot.And airport manager Charlie Crew doesn't wear a suit, he wears something more appropriate for pushing the vacuum cleaner or planning the next cookout or manning the radio or paying the bills.Suburban Airport is unapologetically small-time, tucked beneath the flight paths of the big-time airports near Baltimore and Washington. There's one short runway, most of the hangars are tents and about 75 propeller-driven airplanes call it home.
NEWS
By Shirley Leung and Shirley Leung,Sun Staff Writer | March 5, 1995
Once they thrived. Now they're being shut down, sold off, abandoned.They are community airports, and Maryland has lost five in the past decade. Five more of the state's 29 small public airports could close in the next decade.Across the country, these airports are closing at a rate of one a week, according to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).It is the 5,500 small airports, not the 28 major hubs like Baltimore-Washington International, that form the backbone of the country's aviation network.