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News Release #2
Friends Of The Crested Butte Airport, Inc.
PO Box 1230, Crested Butte, CO 81224
Tel/Fax 800-663-5374
avionclub@hotmail.com
www.cbairport.org
Carlo Cesa: 303-905-7540 |
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| Friends Of The Crested Butte
Airport Association Sets Record For Number Of Aircraft Parked At Avion. |
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August 28, 2001, Crested Butte, Colorado —
Friends Of The Crested Butte Airport Open House sets record attendance and record number
of aircraft parked at the CB Airport Avion ramp. An estimated 300 people and more than
50 aircraft participated.
During the Wings Safety Program, Denver FAA Manager Monty Taylor and FAA Safety Counselor
John Cameron both stressed the prerequisites of safe mountain flying and how the runway
length requirements increase with elevation.
"Medical evacuation aircraft and fire bombers would need all of the runway... I thought
it was a great turnout". Said Mark Hawkins who flew his Cessna Skywagon from Mesa, Arizona.
"It is a great airport and deserves support from the community," said Ken Snow from
Boulder. In addition, numerous pilots were pleased to learn that there are no landing fees,
contrary to misinformation that has been circulating. "I thought the CB airport was private
use only and the public was not welcome" said Joel Kiester from Westcliffe.
Vintage airplanes such as the Boeing Stearman, bush aircraft such as the DeHavilland Beaver,
helicopters, biplanes as well as homebuilts such as Vans Aircraft were all to be seen
last Saturday at the Crested Butte Airport off Brush Creek Road. Free flights were offered
to young aviation enthusiasts, an education program offered by the EAA Aviation Foundation.
One of the latest technology business aircraft, the Pilatus PC-12 was on display and people
were able to sit in her glass cockpit or in any of her eleven seats.
The Colorado Division of Aeronautics publishes the positive economic impact Colorado Airports
contribute to local communities. Though the Crested Butte Airport was not part of the last
study due to the current problems the airport faces, comparative examples show that similar
small airports contributed a significant dollar amount to the local economies:
Airport Location
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Airport
Impact on Local Economies |
Direct Airport Earnings
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Jobs Created
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Salida, CO |
$ 1.4 million |
$458,300 |
23 |
Buena Vista, CO |
$ 2.3 million |
$737,400 |
38 |
La Junta, CO |
$ 1.9 million |
$523,900 |
25 |
Las Animas, CO |
$ 2.5 million |
$720,300 |
29 |
Leadville, CO |
$ 1.6 million |
$488,100 |
23 |
Granby, CO |
$ 1.7 million |
$576,100 |
33 |
Steamboat, CO |
$ 7.3 million |
$ 2.4 million |
127 |
Durango, CO |
$ 110.2 million |
$ 37.4 million |
2230 |
Source: Economic Impact from Colorado
Airports (1998), Colorado Division of Aeronautics, DOT.
For more information contact Carlo
Cesa at 970-349-0495 or 303-905-7540 (mobile). |
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