Great Lakes

City officials in Zanesville, Ohio, opted on May 27 to indefinitely postpone a final vote on an ordinance proposed in March that would establish the first landing fees ever charged by the city's historic airport. The delay, which could become permanent, followed a concerted effort by local pilots and AOPA to marshal focused, commonsense arguments against the measure.

It took three years, but city-owned, public-use Portage Municipal Airport in Wisconsin received its long-awaited airport layout plan approval by the state’s Bureau of Aeronautics, making it finally eligible again for federal project funding.