Sedona, AZ- The Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority announces the start of improvement projects for 2023 on the Sedona Airport.
The $1,461,608 project includes rehabilitation of the entire taxiway system as well as crack sealing, seal coating, and remarking of the airport’s runway. Work is expected to begin in mid-May and take approximately three weeks to complete.
Airport Manager, Ed Rose, stated: “Safety is always our primary objective. This project, grant funded by ADOT with monies attained from aviation user fees, repairs and maintains critical infrastructure for local pennies on the dollar. The Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority provides the matching funds required for Yavapai County, the airport sponsor, to accept this grant opportunity. The Authority is 100% self-funded and according to a recent study, conducted by AOPA – Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association – Sedona Airport brings about $ 40Million dollars a year to the local economy
Cactus Asphalt is the contractor for this improvement.
For more information contact Mr. Rose at 928-282-2415 or ed@sedonaairport.org
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This sounds like a much-needed project but how do they account for the “Sedona Airport brings about $ 40 Million dollars a year to the local economy”?
If safety were a priority the military would not be allowed to hot dog for local hobbyist photographers over Sedona residential or business areas. And if heavy military aircraft were not landing here on a regular basis the airstrip would not crack nearly as much or as often. How often do these million plus $ repairs need to be done exactly?
JB, hiding under your desk again?
Still confused about a couple of F35Bs that were doing a short field training mission over our short runway in Sedona that lasted all of about 12.minutes, to the pleasure of the majority of our citizens? Yes “mystery JB whoever you are”, the majority of the calls were positive.
Tell us from your vast knowledge of military aircraft all the “heavy” military aircraft that land or have landed here. This should be a real interesting comment. We can have fun with that.
All runways and taxiways at ALL airports are redone on a regular basis based on schedules and normal wear and tear. Just like streets, which in case you haven’t noticed get resurfaced on a regular basis.
But runways unlike streets have an authorized max weight allowed and is published. Everything wears out. And we can’t have runways degrading to the level of southbound I 17 or eastbound I 40 out of Kingman.
I really wouldn’t waste this much time with you but someone has to step up and call you out for the mis information and assumptions that you seem to love to post.
The problem that people who don’t know any better might actually think you know what you’re talking g about.
Gee Michael I must have really rattled your cage?
You can say whatever you want but the military does not need to use Sedona as a training area. It has many many many bases CONUS and OCONUS where they can and should be doing so.
Also yes runways do require maintenance but not regular multi million dollar renovations. And plane weight does in fact have negative effects on airfields. You should know this. Which is why heavy aircraft are required to jettison fuel prior to landing at certain airfields. I certainly hope the military isn’t dumping fuel over our parks and residential area just to land aircraft such as C-141’s and C-130’s ? That would be as tragic as one of them slamming into one of our neighborhoods or even more tragically crashing into uptown on a busy tourist filled day!
Michael I’d put my service record up against yours any day! Oh wait you don’t have a DD-214 because you never served! So if anyone needs to be tested on their actual military knowledge it is you pal!
I wasn’t a pilot but I’ve flown in and jumped from many a military aircraft both fixed wing and rotary. Taking pictures of military aircraft in flight hardly makes you a subject matter expert nor am I but I do have actual military experience and I don’t sit on the sidelines and thump my chest pretending I did. Have a good one hobby pilot!
To “Hiding under the desk JB”, we don’t have C141s and C130s landing at Sedona. Why you even bring that up is a mystery.
Nice deflecting but FAIL.
We do not have heavy military planes landing. Our big private jets are heavier than anything military, which is mostly helicopters and Osprey tiltrotors. So your comment about heavy military aircraft is of course ridiculous.
And the military has every legal and moral right to use any airspace it wishes. Suggest you deal with it and stop creating fantasy scenarios.
Pilots need practical training in all situations, including simulated emergency landings and standard flight commications running in regular airspace talking to standard controllers. I hear them all the time.
Occasionally heavy military practice low approaches, and we have a 737 that does low approaches. So what. It is authorized and legal. Deal with it.
What does Jettising jet fuel have to do with anything. I thought you were talking about Sedona. And jettising fuel over our parks? What? What an incredibly ignorant statement. Fuel is only tossed overboard in an emergency to obtain maximum landing weight. You know that emergency procedure?
We don’t do regular “multimillion ” runway renovations. In fact our Runway cracks for as old as the runway is are minimal. But then you are the apparent runway paving expert….not.
And what’s with your hyper scare statements of a 130 or a 141 crashing into our “tourist filled” neighborhood. You’re not worried about a private 50 ton Falcon crashing into a neighborhood? Hmmmm, a little biased against our military are we?
Airfield runways are designed for certain weights. That’s why we, not being a major airport have weight limits.
For simple thinking folks…it’s called “engineering “. Suggest to take a course.
Well Michael you are full of it! We’ve had not only 141’s, 130’s but also a P-3 Orion and fully loaded Osprey and BlackHawks land there. If your were paying attention to the aircraft in and out of here during the medical support mission for the Navajo Reservation you would have seen them! But since you never served you likely thought they were commercial aircraft.
I haven’t spread any disinformation but you have my misguided misinformed friend. You want people to believe what you said about the F-35’s not flying low and slow over West Sedona residences when we all saw and heard this with our own eyes. You also claim without any proof that the reception of this unnecessary “training op” as you called it (which it was NOT) it was Hot Dogging for local hobby photographers like yourself who I’m going out on a limb to suggest they may have been asked to do so for said in flight action shots of them doing exactly what you claim they did not do!
I do concern myself with civil aircraft crashing in Sedona but not nearly as much as I do fighter jets or attack helicopters doing so because of the tremendous damage they cause when they go down. Civilian aircraft for the most part are not hovering over housing or doing racetracks over us!
Since you so staunchly support the military flying into Sedona when they absolutely do not need to and occasionally do need too I must conclude you are making money off it in more ways than your hobby photography. So I’ll stop wasting my time on you since you wear blinders.
If you had served you would realize that the military cannot in fact “do whatever they wish” as you previously stated and that there are strict safety protocols for everything they do or do not do! I presented actual crash data from the Military itself and yet you claim it is disinformation which only proves you believe what you want to without facts to back it. You have not made a single statement to justify the hot dogging they do or the noise they make when doing so, nor have you justified them landing here when not on humanitarian missions or in inflight emergency and you cannot because there is zero justification for it!
I used to investigate military wannabes for a highly prestigious non profit and you fit right into the wannabe category.
Lastly, you have a deep concern for knowing my full identity but yet you say nothing of Sue, West Sedona Dave and many others smart enough not to disclose their full identities. We all know what happens when nut jobs hunt people down because they disagree with someone’s opinions or beliefs. Not going to give you that satisfaction sorry pal!
Facts matter so here are some facts.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104591/low-altitude-flying-training/
Some think that the military can do no wrong. Many in the service break protocol, dis obey rules regulations and orders on a frequent basis. This is why we have military justice system UCMJ, Manual for Courts Marshall, ROE’s, Laws of Land Warfare aka the Geneva Conventions. The US military is not infallible.
I am not anti military as someone suggested here, I’m a veteran so how could I be? Just as I am not a racist or a war criminal. How could I be I served with soldiers from every single imaginable walk of life and many foreign nationals who had a year to obtain their citizenship so they could serve our country.
Anyone who applauds recklessness from anyone operating any kind of vehicle or aircraft especially over residential areas just because they think it’s Patriotic is simple minded at best.
JB, I am a Vietnam era veteran who worked on C-141’s and C-130’s so I know a few things about them and there has never been ANY of either of these cargo planes landing in Sedona in the 33 years I have lived here. Obviously, you know nothing about Michael Schroeder because if you did, you would treat him with the respect he deserves. Michael flies veterans of all ages and backgrounds and their families to any state where they can receive the specialized medical care needed and then flies back to pick them up and takes them home……………..all at no cost to the veteran, Michael picks up the tab. He is also Honorary Commander of the Medical Unit at Luke Air Force Base so I think you owe Michael an apology and a great deal of respect because he does more for the veterans than you ever will. Time for you to get off your high horse. As for the 12 minutes that the F35’s were in our area, it was the sound of freedom that makes most of us veterans proud.
Dale,
You are overlooking the fact that the flight pattern used by those F-35’s was in violation of FAA and military rules regulations and guidelines. They endangered the community in doing so which is why the rules, regulations and guidelines prohibits such maneuvers. That is fact whether you enjoyed the SHOW or not!
You say that I as a Combat Veteran should apologize for my defending my position and that of established restrictions on military aircraft over populated areas? Well if you truly are a veteran then you know that RESPECT is EARNED not given. Good on him for doing things as a civilian to help veterans that is commendable but not justification for attacking one over an issue I have posted numerous links to MILITARY regulations and studies while he has yet to post a single link of factual information regarding his claim that the military can do whatever it wants to wherever they want too because that is absolute BS and you as a veteran should know better. The Mi Lai Massacre would have come and gone without a blink of an eye if what Michael claims were true.
As for C-130’s, 141’s landing here they absolutely did and will very likely do so again. I will obtain flight path records via a FOIA request to prove you both wrong. Guess you may have missed them they came through from San Antonio with Army CASH personnel, supplies and equipment for the Navajo Nation during their COVID emergency. I support the military 100% for having done so as it was necessary unlike the attack helicopters and fighter jets that pop in for lunch and fuel here at taxpayer expense which under Per Diem/TDY/GSA rates is far more expensive to the taxpayer then if they had done these activities at a military base or training area like they should have in the first place.
Just yesterday there was an article on Arizona Family News regarding complaints against law enforcement helicopters deviating from established flight paths over Phoenix while NOT conducting official duties. I have not complained once about LE not SAR aircraft doing that here nor will I because they perform a much needed function here and aren’t doing it for “the cameras” or for “illegal training” purposes.
No matter what is said here by anyone wishing to defend the military violating their own flight regulations, the matter has been referred to Congressional Oversight as well as the Inspector General’s of each and every branch of service requesting a full review of how and when military aircraft are accessing the Sedona Airport. So attack me all you want too it is no longer in my hands nor yours!
Out!