[FONT="]To all of the Birchwood Airport people that don't know yet, Eklutna Inc. is attempting to buy or possibly swap land for Birchwood Airport. I heard rumor of it yesterday and called the DOT leasing person to find out. Initially they scoffed at the idea and said there was no way that would be happening that they wouldn't know about it , but they would ask. A bit later they called back and said they found that there had been meetings at higher levels with just that topic, but the[/FONT][FONT="]re was no reason to be concerned as there was a lot of process for them to go thru. Really!
I know that Eklutna is trying to develop an aviation housing community on their land just south of the airport and are also trying to develop that whole area into a huge industrial complex. They have heavy influence over a good number of our politicians and have a history of trying to back door things like this. This stinks heavily of that. If they get private control of a state airport you can bet that it will not bode well for the individuals that have planes and hangars there. The Birchwood Airport Association is having an informational meeting at the Birchwood CAP hangar on Sat at 4 PM. It would be a good one to attend and I would hope that someone from DOT and Eklutna would be there.[/FONT]