Regulations and Government
FAA Wins Latest Battle over Santa Monica Airport

Aviation interests are pleased with a decision issued late Thursday by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that halts an effort by the city of Santa Monica to close its airport (SMO). Judge John Walter ruled in favor of the position advocated by the FAA, that the city’s challenge to the requirement that SMO continue to be a publicly accessible airport was “untimely.”