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re: $200 customs ramp fee
I sent a note to Atlantic, and their regional manager, Joe Fazio, got back to me within the hour. They will refund the $200 customs handling fee from my last visit, and are working to come up with an arrangement more suitable for small, single-engine aircraft (they don't see very many of them, unfortunately). I recommend that anyone planning to clear customs at TEB call first to confirm the fee structure, but hopefully, this problem will soon disappear. In the meantime, I'll just plan an extra customs stop at Massena or Watertown on my way down.
I do recommend Atlantic @ TEB: aside from this one issue, they've provided excellent service to me and my family over the years on our visits to NYC, and even though their gas is expensive, it doesn't add up to all that much of a difference for, say, 22 gallons in a small plane. As for TEB itself, as long as you can depart VFR, tower will almost always let a small plane cut in ahead of the lineup -- yesterday morning, I barely had time to put on my brakes at the hold-short line before I was cleared for takeoff ahead of several bizjets. An IFR departure will be another story, but that's true of any NYC-area airport, because the clearance has to come from NY Approach (I once spent 25 minutes idling at Republic waiting for my IFR release).
$200 customs ramp fee
Since the customs move to Hangar 1, there is now a $200 ramp fee for customs clearance, even for small private planes. It's not clear whether it's Atlantic charging the fee. Atlantic ramp staff said that someone is working to get the fee reduced or removed for small planes -- it's really designed for bizjets -- and that a lot of people have been caught by surprise and angry about it.
NDB AL 219 kHz "HAWKY" Decommissioned
AL 219 kHz "HAWKY" decommissioned Jan 2007.
Customs for Atlantic Aviation has moved
!TEB 05/023 TEB SVC CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION OPS RELOCATED FROM
HANGAR 3 TO HANGAR 1
CREATED: 10 May 2012 19:30:00
SOURCE: KISPYFYX
Watch for birdstrikes
Great scenery, but be careful for birds. Also, if you're taking off runway 33R or 33L watch for the mountains
SheltAir FBO
Good place to stop if visiting SAV. Nice facilities, friendly. $13/night ramp fee.
Daniel Airport Addis, Louisiana
Planning a trip to the area in 2 weeks
In Service?
No, Hidden Hills Airport (aka Tambovester Airport) is no longer in service (declass by FAA).
Orlando Apopka Airport
This is my home airport. It's not too fancy, but it works.
Cantact info
He does not mind visitors. Call first. 530 597 2571
great restaurant
on the north end of the field with big apron for airplane parking
wrong address
the wrong address is on their website. no one answered at the fbo and this is during their published hours
Avery International and Hair Care Center
I understand that this is the "World Famous " Tim Avery "official "Hobby shop and shooting Gallery -up to 600 yards >ground hog preserve.Great Breakfast cook Tim is.
re: Memorable (but short)Summer Job
My name is Tom and I used to work there also (I think it was 1969 or 1970). I too think that Milt was a great guy to work for. I also remember an instructor named Rex Beach who worked there and lived in a rental near the airport. Those were the days. The Turbo-Commander I remember once belonged to R.A. Bob Hoover and I got to sit right seat with the pilot once. That was a memory that will live with me forever. By the way - if you go to the latest version of Google Earth - they have the capability to show satellite images from back to 1999. If you turn off the roads (which shows the new ones) - there is our old Berz Macomb Airport in all it's glory.
TZO - Bristow Decommissioned
TZO 251 kHz has been off air since March 2006 and was decommissioned July 2007.
Great place for learning to fly
Four airports with 25 miles. Definatly a place for power off landings.
Good FBO
Need repair... Visit Alex at Syrek Mee Aviation. Great service!
Come to the airport and have some fun in Hawaii's skies!
Glider rides (scenic and aerobatic), glider flight instruction, skydiving, beautiful beach right across the street for any non-flyers in your group, just ten minutes from Haliewa with its reataurants and shops.
Awesome airport
Great place to fly
Hanarage
I am looking for rental space for starduster too, preferably out of direct sunlight.
closed
Not in service for many years. Most recently a motorcycle junkyard.
Small but friendly
We like to fly in to this little airport to have a $100 coke and take their old courtesy cruiser into Artesia and eat at the Wellhead. Great old movie theatre with current movies for $3! Fun cheap date with your wife if you don't count the fuel.
re: Manhattan and Hudson River Corridor Access
Reply to @willymopit: yes, the landing fee from TEB is annoying, and it's especially a pain for me in Canada, since I have to go to the bank and get a U.S. money order to pay it, then put it in an envelope and mail it to them (they won't accept a credit card). I don't mind the $17, but I wish I could just pay it through the FBO while I was there. I also suspect that billing me and processing the money order probably costs them several times the $17 they collect from me.
re: Manhattan and Hudson River Corridor Access
Reply to @david: Thanks for the input. Speaking of the port authority, I got a bill for $17 several weeks after visiting. I have no idea why, didn't think there were any other use fees except what the FBO was going to charge.
btw, I love this site, so simple, straight-forward, and has been a great resource for creating a large wall map I now keep in my home.
I would like to know more...
I have flown over this several times enroute between KTYL and Yuma and wondered about it - it sure looks nice... but lots of restricted airspace around, with all the military training ranges. What can you tell us about land nearby if you have recently bought property there?
re: Cross currents make landing difficult
Hi,
KSEZ was landing number 4 on my long solo cross-country flight during my flight training (my "3 towered landings" x-c: The first 3 ldgs were at Flagstaff, another bumpy, cross-windy airport!)
Most of Arizona's airfields, especially those in the more northern parts, can be windy, gusty, and bumpy - that's just Arizona flying... but if the air was always smooth and always straight down the runway, everyone would want to live here!
Don't let the "SS Sedona" spook you - it just looks scary since it is up on a teeny, tiny looking mesa. But it just ~looks~ that way. (That's how it got the nickname "SS Sedona" - it kinda looks like an aircraft carrier landing...)
Here's the trick to landing there - NEVER try to put it down on the numbers! Land a little long - there will almost always be turbulence and even downdrafts at the ends of the runway - since the runway ends at the edge of the mesa which falls off rather abruptly to the valley floor below...
Come in high, maybe a few knots fast, with a good sink rate and make it a short-field landing. Even though the runway looks small (since it looks like it's all alone up there, perched on a mesa) it really is plenty long and wide. It will probably be windy, so just keep flying the airplane all the way to the tie-downs.
Get it tied-down and visit the FBO - get yourself a "SS Sedona" souvenir ballcap so you'll have braggin' rights. Then visit the new restaurant there - I hear they have good food!
When you are done, go out and make a short field take-off so that you've got a little altitude under your butt before you pass over the far end of the runway - you'll be fine!
Have fun!
Mark
MHT
My home airport
Grounded by weather in Grove City on March 12
Heidi the FBO lady couldn't have been more helpful.
Palo Alto Airport
My home airport. Good chili at Abundant Air Cafe. Good rentals at Sundance flying club, West Valley Flying Club, Advantage Aviation.
Cross currents make landing difficult
This is a scary airport to land at. METAR does not show all the wind currents, even experienced pilots crash here.
Lincoln Park and folks fondly remembered
Knew Bill Fedishen (great guy, classic unforgettable character, who was a great foil for Ed. The two were classics of aviation.) Equally unforgetable was Ed Gorski who took my mom and older brother up in a JN-4 Jenny (or maybe a Waco?) in the old days. My first light plane ride, Cessna 172 (1962), first lesson (1964) through license (1969) being instructed by: Bill, Tony Farell (who, IIRC, did my license pre-check ride) and young Dave Brody (with whom did my last dual-cross country and my first & only spin). From Lincoln Park to 23 years in Naval Aviation.
I was there for 365 days ' June 1961-June 1962 M/sgt James m
It was a long year
South Valley Regional Airport
Leading Edge Aviation is the main FBO here and are very helpful. Flight School is great and they have a RedBird ATD (Advanced Training Device) available, with Traditional or G1000 instrumentation.
nice airport
Flew there in 1997~1998
Wow! What a great air port
In and very fast. , Bob Chezvic
First flight
This is where I started flying. I have gone so far since then.
First flight
This is where I started flying. I have gone so far since then.
re: Ice Cream
Reply to @MarkAnd: for the price, you get a great amount! best place to go on a sunny day! :)
dangerous
Stay away unless you have an emergency. The runway is the wavyest runway I have ever landed on. Kicked us back into the air on landing. Rolling not close to being level. Our engine quit because of the negitive G incured from being bounced. I have 1329 hours in a tail dragger and this was without a doubt the scarest landing ever.
ETB
My home field. Great EAA Chapter (Chapter 1158)!
Lewistown NDB Decommissioned
LWT 353 kHz was decommissioned Nov 2008.
Fuel
Same fuel vendor as SLO & Oceano. Best price w/in 60 miles.
Food
The only food available on the field now is from a vending machine. Restaurant closed. No transportation to town. Must phone rental car.
Accommodations
Great FBO. Had a courtesy car for us and found us a room when none were available. However, I would not stop there for anything but fuel in the future.
Runway
Very nice grass runway. Well maintained.
N3962T
This is where I purchased my current plane in 2007.
Home Airport
This is where I keep N3962T
Sanderson
Landed here to look at a Cessna 150. Nice clean airport. No courtesy car, not much for dining. Frequent skydiving. Great pilot lounge.
re: Not for me...
Maybe you ignored and drove past the three signs telling you to park in the parking lot and not drive on the ramp? If so it shows your character to be that of, "I ignore rules and can do whatever I want", meaning they probably wouldn't want types like you there in the first place!
I got this when I typed in KBFE, which is Boeing Field in Se
🔗 Fri, 08 Jun 2012
— Anonymous Flyer at Terry County Airport, United States
FAIL!