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 PDF download showing monthly avgas and jetfuel related to overall average monthly fuel volumes (1p); and,
here for PDF download showing 12-month running sums for avgas jetfuel, and lead (2p).
Alternatively, click here to view the PDF files online.
What does this data show?
- Although unleaded avgas sales commenced in May 2023 and began to reduce total lead pollution, the overall avgas sales have grown dramatically. In fact, total lead pollution bottomed out in March 2024 (down 13%, from 3,111 pounds to 2,696 pounds), but the most recent three months have all seen increased lead pollution.
- Total avgas sales have increased 16% since January 2023. Look up and down the 12-mo running sum: AvGas column and the last year+ is by far the darkest red, indicating the strongest growth rate since 2012.
- If the airport authority and their airport-biased citizen panels truly want to serve the whole community (not just the tiny aviation community), they would go much more transparent, providing further data and analysis, to clearly establish what is driving recent avgas growth, and how it is impacting residents.
- As a point of clarification, understand that fuel flowage fees (typically around a dime per gallon) are a primary revenue source for general aviation (GA) airports. As such, airport authorities must compile public records on fuel flowage … and that objective data needs to be shared with the public, to feed full discourse on how to manage the local airport.