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"Deadline passes for Oceanside, California to take over airport"

Saturday, February 2, 2002 

Deadline passes for Oceanside to take over airport 
By Lola Sherman 
THE SAN DIEGO (CA) UNION-TRIBUNE


OCEANSIDE - The deadline for city takeover of operations at Oceanside
Municipal Airport passed yesterday, and nothing happened. 

Sea Winds Aviation, a private flight school, has been operating the
airport on behalf of the city under a five-year contract that expired
Dec. 31 but was extended to Jan. 31. Yesterday, Sea Winds continued to
run the airport, and it probably will continue to do so for the
immediate future. 

Sea Winds has sued the city, saying it reads the extension provisions in
the original contract differently from city officials. 

Assistant City Attorney Anita Willis said she doesn't intend to take any
steps to evict Sea Winds before the suit is resolved. She said she
couldn't predict when that might be. 

The City Council is considering what to do with the 40-year-old airport,
which has been the target of increasing complaints about noise over the
past year. Some council members have said there might be a more
lucrative use for the 37 acres in the San Luis Rey Valley. 

In response to the complaints, Pat Williams, Sea Winds' chief, has
barred his instructors from allowing pilots to make noisy touch-and-go
landings at the airport. 

Additionally, the recently formed Oceanside Airport Association has
stepped into the picture. It began with 50 members and includes pilots
and others interested in saving the airport, said association president
Alan Cruise. 

Cruise, an airline pilot, said the airport could bring in $624,000 a
year if its old hangars were replaced. 

Rick Baker, the association's secretary, said the airport could be even
more profitable if a restaurant were built, as proposed in the airport
master plan. 

The association has a Web site at www.OceansideAirport.org


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