Jun 14, 2019 | Aurora Airport Expansion
Following the recent public disclosures made by the Dept. of Aviation that the so-called master plan for the Aurora Airport resulting from the recent master plan process has not been legally adopted by the State Aviation Board, the City of Wilsonville sent a position...
Apr 30, 2019 | Aurora Airport Expansion
Recent efforts by the Oregon Dept. of Aviation (ODA) to expand the Aurora State Airport through a $37 million grant application to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in October 2018 has raised again an underlying, open question unanswered for several years: Is...
Jan 18, 2019 | Aurora Airport Expansion
AURORA, OR, January 18, 2019 On Dec. 12, 2018, Oregon Solutions (College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University) delivered to the Legislative Emergency Board a requested Assessment Report regarding the Aurora State Airport. The legislative request...
Oct 24, 2018 | Aurora Airport Expansion
On Thursday, Oct. 23, Mayor Tim Knapp, Mayor of the City of Wilsonville sent a “letter to correct the record” to Legislative Leadership and members of the Legislative Emergency Board to address and rebut the wild and incorrect information made at the Emergency Board...
Oct 20, 2018 | Aurora Airport Expansion
As an Oregon nonprofit, Friends of French Prairie takes seriously our non-profit status with the State of Oregon and with the IRS, and that includes avoiding endorsing candidates and actively being involved in political campaigns. We are a “public benefit” advocacy...
Oct 7, 2018 | Aurora Airport Expansion
By way of background, on June 20 the Statesman Journal ran an opinion piece by Ben Williams, President of Friends of French Prairie, about two airports: the Salem Airport and the Aurora Airport. The point was that expansion at Aurora will likely come at the expense of...
