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... 3 AIRPORT GOVERNANCE AND OWNERSHIP Daniel S Reimer, Esq., and John E
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... 4 the war pursuant to the Surplus Property Act.3 During the 1950s and 1960s, several airport authorities were established to assume control over public airports. Changes in airport governance continue to occur as a result of transfers of military airfields for commercial or joint (military and commercial)
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... 5 These results are consistent with the previous ACI-NA survey conducted in 1997.5 A 2005 survey conducted in the course of another project for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Cooperative Research Program categorized airports differently, but with similar results.6 In an effort to gather additional data on airport governance, the authors examined publicly-available information on the commercial service airports identified as small, medium, and large hubs in the current National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)
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... 6 among airport governance structures, no associations have been definitively established.7 C Creating an Airport Governance Typology One of the fundamental problems in attempting to categorize airport governance in a meaningful way is that governance is a multifaceted concept.
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... 7 has not been defined, FAA guidance suggests that it exceeds the power of individual airport operators working cooperatively to allocate traffic within a region.12 • Some airports are located within the jurisdiction of a public entity that is not directly responsible for airport decision-making. These host jurisdictions may have legal authority to regulate land use but are preempted from regulating aircraft operations and safety.

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