Rotorcraft
NJ Pols take aim at NYC helitours
Attempt underway to restrict heli-tour operations departing from New Jersey airports and heliports.

A coalition of elected New Jersey democrats from local governments and the state legislature want to put New York heli-tour operators out of business.

The coalition is pushing passage of a state bill that seeks to eliminate New York-area helicopter tour flights over the Hudson River by cutting off access to their home bases at New Jersey airports and heliports. The coalition said the move was necessary to curb what it claimed were 700 daily helicopter air tour flights in the area and is particularly critical of flights over the New Jersey side of the Hudson near Hoboken, N.J.

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