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KAPA Monthly Fuel Flows: July Update

New Data from the Airport Authority This Post is a monthly update, based on data shared by an activist focused on mitigating airport impacts. The data has been reformatted by aiREFORM.com, to better show monthly trends in both fuel flowage and aviation toxic lead impact. Click these links to download the PDF files: here for […]

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KAPA Monthly Fuel Flows: June Update & Some Analysis

The airport authority for Centennial Airport (KAPA) does the right thing when they share monthly fuel flow data; good for them, and hopefully other airports will be responsible with this level of transparency. The latest release includes June data, and past releases offer 150 months of data. The KAPA data reflects a reality at most […]

[KAPA]: Monthly Fuel Flow Data, 12-Month Running Sum Analysis

The embedded PDF below provides a 12-month Running Sum Analysis of monthly fuel flow data at KAPA. Dwell on the bottom of the embed window to use controls to zoom the PDF scale and/or scroll pages. Click here to download the pdf (2p).  

[KAPA]: Monthly Fuel Flowage Data through June 2024

The embedded PDF below provides monthly fuel flow data for KAPA, from January 2012 through June 2024. Dwell on the bottom of the embed window to use controls to zoom the PDF scale and/or scroll pages. Click here to download the pdf (1p).

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KAPA & KBJC: Updated Monthly Operations Data

A new month is approaching, and residents along the Front Range are continuing to be heavily impacted by excessive flight training. In the last decade, there has been a big push for consolidation of flight schools. Private Equity is investing in these businesses, and making extra profits by concentrating activities to just a few airports. […]

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Flight Training Impacts at KAPA & KBJC: An Analysis of the July 7th Denver Post Article

Below is a PDF copy of the text for a good article, published in the Denver Post, on July 7th. The writer, John Aguilar, provides a deep news compilation on how residents are severely impacted by airport operations at and near Centennial Airport (KAPA), and the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (KBJC). This analysis by aiREFORM […]

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KAPA: FAA and Mike Fronapfel Need to Be More Transparent

Click on this link to download the 5-pg PDF.

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[KAPA]: Monthly Fuel Flowage Data for 2021

Data was recently obtained by activists impacted under the flight training ‘closed pattern’ at Centennial Airport [KAPA]. The data shows ten years of monthly fuel flowage figures, both in gallons and revenue dollars; it is all compiled into the spreadsheet below: Background: At most General Aviation (GA) airports, the two largest revenue sources are leases […]

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Aurora Airport is an Example of How GA Airports are Changing for the Worse

Aurora Airport (KUAO) sits on the north edge of Marion County, 22-miles south of Oregon’s busiest commercial airport, Portland International (KPDX). In late 2021, a new airport master plan process was initiated: FAA put up more than $1 million, airport-sponsor Oregon Department of Aviation (ODA) inked a contract, the main contractor, an outfit known as […]

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What Do We Need from FAA to Mitigate Aviation Impacts?

This Post returns to the impacts around KAPA, but also discusses JFK Airport (KJFK). These two airports offer an excellent example of the two largest impacts FAA is currently having on residential neighborhoods in the U.S.: ‘concentrated & repetitive’ closed pattern work associated with flight schools at KAPA, and ‘concentrated and repetitive’ arrival and departure […]