Legislator lobbies TSA to re-open D.C. heliport
A senior member of both the House aviation subcommittee and Homeland Security Committee is urging the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to re-op
A senior member of both the House aviation subcommittee and Homeland Security Committee is urging the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to re-open Washington, D.C.’s South Capitol Street Heliport (09W) to civilian traffic. In a letter late last year to TSA administrator John Pistole, U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) noted that 09W “remains closed nearly ten years after 9/11 except for use by law enforcement, military and medical evacuation traffic.”
Norton said that the government’s action amounted to “takeover of a private facility without compensation” despite “the willingness of the heliport to submit to whatever strictures and regulations the government chose to impose” on it.
