AOPA Airport Support Network
AOPA Airport Support Network
Volunteer at your airport!
Is there an ASN volunteer at your airport? Click here to find out.
New simplified login process for ASN volunteers
Appointed ASN Volunteers who are logged in to the AOPA Web site are now automatically logged in to the ASN Volunteers-Only section. There’s no longer a need to remember a separate username and password! If you initially have trouble accessing the ASN Volunteers-Only section, try logging out and back in to the AOPA Web site to reset your permissions. Forgot your AOPA username and/or password?
Access the ASN Volunteer Nomination Form.
Search the ASN volunteer database:
- AOPA members: Find your airport volunteer and send e-mail.
- Non-members: Find your airport volunteer. (You may send e-mail to ASN headquarters using the link below).
Volunteers needed at these airports.
Send e-mail to ASN headquarters.
Appointed ASN Volunteers: Visit the ASN Volunteers-Only Area.
Featured Resource
Protecting Your Airport
Want to help protect your airport but don’t know what to do or where to start?
Download a copy of the Airport Support Network’s newest tool, AOPA’s Guide for Airport Advocates: Participating in the Planning Process. Available to everyone, this handbook will guide you through the steps of the land-use and airport planning processes, offer examples of successful advocacy efforts, and introduce you to the buzz words, political groups, and industry practices that will help you become an effective airport advocate.
For more information on learning how you can help protect your local airport and get involved with AOPA in your community, become an ASN volunteer.
To see if your airport needs a volunteer, click here.
What’s My Airport Worth? - Some states have invested in this worthwhile project and AOPA has captured the data produced by these studies in a single location. Click here to view the reports.
AOPA’s Guide for Airport Advocates: Participating in the Planning Process
This handbook will guide you through the steps of the land-use and airport planning processes, offer examples of successful advocacy efforts, and introduce you to the buzz words, political groups, and industry practices that will help you become an effective airport advocate.
Aircraft Hangar Development Guide
This guide will help you and your airport owner successfully plan, design, and complete a new hangar development project at your airport.
Airport closures at privately owned/public-use airports
Your favorite privately owned airport is going to be sold to a developer! What can you do?
AOPA help for saving airports
For AOPA members concerned about the future of their local airport, dozens of “airport support” materials are available.
AOPA’s Guide to Airport Noise and Compatible Land Use
This booklet is intended as a guide in the understanding of the issues, rules, procedures, and policies applicable to airport noise and compatible land use planning.
AOPA’s Guide to FAA Airport Compliance
This booklet is intended as a guide in understanding the rules, procedures, and policies applicable to the FAA’s procedures for airport compliance.
Community airports
Learn what you can do to help safeguard this valuable resource.
The Complete Guide to Holding an Airport Open House
A comprehensive “how-to” booklet for airport and pilot groups interested in showcasing their general aviation airport and demonstrating how it benefits the local community.
Minimum Standards for Commercial Aeronautical Activities
The FAA urges airport sponsors to establish reasonable minimum standards that are relevant to the aeronautical activity being proposed. These minimum standards are intended to protect the level and quality of services offered to aircraft owners, pilots, and the public at large.
Protecting Your Local Airport
Political pressures, greed, and even pilot apathy are the top killers of GA airports. That’s why AOPA relies on dedicated pilots like you to be GA’s first line of defense.
The AOPA Airport Support Network is established to provide the association and the general aviation community with direct contact, on a day-to-day basis, with qualified individuals who can in turn serve as a vital communications channel and advocates on issues of importance to general aviation pilots, airport managers, and community citizens. ASN volunteers will endeavor to enhance industry professionalism and assist airport service providers, airport sponsors and owners, elected officials, and airport users stay ahead of the growing needs of general aviation aircraft owners and pilots.
Note: Please read What is the AOPA Airport Support Network? before submitting a nomination.
The primary goal of the Airport Support Network is to have one individual at every public-use airport in the United States. In so doing, the general aviation community at an airport will be able to solve problems before they become significant.
Communications within the Airport Support Network is by Internet mail and private-access Web sites; therefore, nominees must have an Internet e-mail address and Internet access.
The association is seeking individuals who wish to volunteer their time and talent at the local level for a specific airport. At each public-use airport in the United States, we are seeking an AOPA member desiring to fill this role, who has and can make significant contributions to enhancing general aviation both at his or her home airport and within his community at large.
