Airports
Facing Legal Action, East Hampton Moves To Close Airport
Facing a court-issued temporary restraining order on its plan to make East Hampton Airport private, the town has decided to begin its closure entirely.

With its plans to convert East Hampton Airport (KHTO) into a private-use East Hampton Town Airport (KJPX) at least temporarily thwarted by legal action, the Long Island, New York town has requested that its attorneys begin the process of shutting down the airport entirely. Facing what it described as a “mountain of litigation” from stakeholders and groups such as NBAA, which filed lawsuits over the town’s plan to shutter the airport on May 17 and reopen it days later as the publicly-owned, permission-required, private-use KJPX, the town has decided to move in the opposite direction.