2011 candidates answer questions concerning OSU Airport noise and proposed expansion
Posted Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:47 am EDT
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Coming to WOOSE website in October: 2011 candidates answer questions OSU Airport noise and proposed expansion. Worthington City Council, Sharon Towns
Posted Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:04 am EDT
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FAA Press release: FAA Extension goes Unaddressed
Posted Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:19 pm EDT
The Airport Improvement Program has already stopped processing new airport grants in anticipation of a furlough. Additionally, the FAA will be forced to withhold money for states and individual airports as a result of the lapse in authorization. For example,the FAA cannot give the state of Ohio over $10 million in airport grant money. Up to 4,000 FAA employees in 35 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will be furloughed and forced to go without pay. This includes many of FAA’s engineers, scientists, research analysts, administrative assistants, computer specialists, program managers and analysts, environmental protection specialists, and community planners. (more info)

Ohio State Announces Partnership with NetJets Inc. to Establish Center for Aviation Studies
Posted Fri Jun 3, 2011 10:03 pm EDT
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The FAA determined Ohio State Airport’s Part 150 Noise Compatibility Program is NOT COMPLETE and the FAA cannot start the 180 day review
Posted Thu May 19, 2011 2:17 pm EDT
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Ohio State University Airport (OSU) – Columbus, OH Terminal Forecast for Ohio State's Airport: Unknown, But Noise an Issue
National Business Aviation Association, October 6, 2011
A lead article in the Columbus Dispatch newspaper earlier this month broke the news that the future of Ohio State University airport (OSU) is again in question. University officials tried in the mid-1980s to sell the popular GA airport to developers, but were stopped by the FAA. Review the article. University spokeswoman Shelly Hoffman confirmed that discussions on the airport’s future had started, but said that speculation on changes in ownership or operation of the airport was premature.

letter: Local candidates respond to planned airport expansion
Worthington News, September 29, 2011
WOOSE (We Oppose Ohio State airport Expansion) has asked all candidates running for Worthington City Council, Sharon Township Board of Trustees and Riverlea mayor to respond to six questions concerning OSU Airport noise impacts and the proposed expansion.

Letter: Bolton Field has much to offer business clients
Columbus Dispatch, September 24, 2011
Mr Keller offers comment on Columbus Dispatch article “OSU to weigh future of airport”, and notes Bolton Field as a viable alternative.

Ohio State to weigh future of airport
The Columbus Dispatch, September 18, 2011
It’s been 25 years since Ohio State University tried to close its airport on the Northwest Side and sell it to developers. But officials will have a much more complicated set of issues to consider when looking at the future of the airport.Any deal involving the airport will have to address several key issues: its role in OSU’s aviation-studies curriculum; federal restrictions based on money received for land and improvements there; and long-simmering friction with some of the airport’s neighbors.

U. of I. cancels aviation program
Chicago Tribune, July 22, 2011
University of Illinois trustees agreed Thursday to shutter a decades-old aviation program in what one official cautioned could be the first of many cost-cutting moves at the state's flagship campus. The Institute of Aviation, based at the Urbana-Champaign campus, will close its doors at the end of the 2013-14 school year, according to the board's 6-2 vote.