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Hmm, don’t know how I made this private or how to change it to not private..
 

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What turbine airship are u in?
 

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I would love to find a pilot to charter from Oregon to Havasu every once in a while!
 

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Is this to accommodate commercial jet traffic?

Length?
 

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Is this to accommodate commercial jet traffic?

Length?
Don’t think they are changing the length or width, government grant kinda $$, use it or lose it. So they are getting the old runway completely removed and a new one installed. Keeps them in line for more grants in the future. I did hear that the military might have a larger presence there in the future.
 

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Don’t think they are changing the length or width, government grant kinda $$, use it or lose it. So they are getting the old runway completely removed and a new one installed. Keeps them in line for more grants in the future. I did hear that the military might have a larger presence there in the future.
I've notice significantly more military aircraft in/out there. I do not see them doing stuff at Chemehuevi Airport nearly as often as I used to.
 

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I've notice significantly more military aircraft in/out there. I do not see them doing stuff at Chemehuevi Airport nearly as often as I used to.
Havasu Airport was trained and approved to fuel the fighter jets about a year ago, not sure how much of that they actually do.
 

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Is this to accommodate commercial jet traffic?

Length?

The runway needs repaved when the pavement has reached a certain age. Something like every 15 years. Most improvements are paid through Airport Improvement Plan grants that are an 80/20 deal. The grant pays 80%, local government pays the 20% match. The federal money comes from the excise taxes on fuel sales.
 

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I've notice significantly more military aircraft in/out there. I do not see them doing stuff at Chemehuevi Airport nearly as often as I used to.
Chemehuevi Airport you can't even get them to put up a windsock little load do anything?
 

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Wish they’d fly commercial out of there.
 

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Past air service to Havasu was subsidized by the government under the EASP.

A lot of that money has gone away in budget cuts for that program.
 

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Probably not enough demand to fly into a town of 60K people
 
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