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Crack in front of City hanger.
Box culvert at north end of runway. Each opening is about four feet tall, this ditch is in the ten to twelve feet deep range. This is 45 feet off of the runway.
Open electrical junction box in the ramp area.
Asphalt damage left from snow plowing. The tenants cleaned this up.
This is from the the city reply to the FAA reply to the city corrective action plan.
Routine
Maintenance Items
Item 1, Grass & Weeds: We did not mean to imply that the only weed treatments provided were once in the spring. Our crews spray sidewalks, parking lots and the airport throughout the growing season. That practice will continue on an “as needed” basis.
Item 4, Beacon & Runway Lights: The City will continue to provide timely and qualified repairs to all materials and equipment at the airport for which we have a legal obligation for as long as the obligation remains.
Item 1, Grass & Weeds: We did not mean to imply that the only weed treatments provided were once in the spring. Our crews spray sidewalks, parking lots and the airport throughout the growing season. That practice will continue on an “as needed” basis.
Item 4, Beacon & Runway Lights: The City will continue to provide timely and qualified repairs to all materials and equipment at the airport for which we have a legal obligation for as long as the obligation remains.
Summer 2013 weed control
summer 2013
These two pictures were taken over the summer of 2013
The tall grass in this picture is not mowed due to a four foot deep ditch 500 feet of the end of the runway.
After a snow storm last winter the city plowed half of the runway.
Common use taxiway.
that is gravel, the paving is gone.
The following are on the secondary taxiway.
These pictures really are worth a thousand words. The city "leadership" should be ashamed. A complete waste of what could be one of the best little airports serving the St. Louis Metro area.
ReplyDeleteYou are right about that. During 2005 K39 was coming back to life with over 25 tenant aircraft, a growing demand for services, hangers, etc., and a growing EAA Chapter with 20+ members.
ReplyDeleteThings were looking good and MoDot was looking to make St Claire airport a showcase for Mo. general aviation. When Blum was elected, the destruction began. Hanger rent rates went up, running off tenants, Refusing to improve or repair anything they weren't forced by the FAA to do.
Private aviation is a bad word these days. The current political winds have portrayed GA to be for the wealthy 1 per-centers, which of course, are evil. An effective and untrue jealousy campaign. So it's easy for the Blumass to get a depressed, not highly educated little town turned against it.
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