Airports
NATA Responds to AOPA Ramp Proposal
NATA looks to counter a legistlative proposal from AOPA and others calling for the establishment of GA ramps at public use airports.
Cirrus SR20 on ramp Hawthorne Airport (Photo: Matt Thurber/AIN)

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is seeking input from its members in response to a legislative proposal put forward by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and other aviation stakeholders to the ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure and the Aviation Subcommittee, calling for the establishment and implementation of transient parking ramps at public-use airports.

While AOPA and its co-signatories believe individual owner-operators of aircraft should not be required to pay fees to a private business on a public-use airport when "their products and services are not used, needed, or requested," NATA responded that it “does not believe the issue is universal to all publicly funded airports, nor does it merit an unfunded federal mandate.”

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