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Neighborhoods press for airport noise reporting; AOPA warns of preemption limits
Summary
Residents and officials from Danvers and Wenham told the Joint Committee on Transportation that repeated flight‑training touch‑and‑go maneuvers at Beverly Regional Airport are producing disruptive noise and asked the state to collect and publish noise reports and help implement a good‑neighbor policy.
Residents and officials from the Danvers area told the Joint Committee on Transportation that persistent touch‑and‑go training by student pilots at Beverly Regional Airport is producing disruptive noise in nearby neighborhoods, and they asked the committee to require the Massachusetts Office of Aeronautics to collect and publish noise report data and help the airport implement a good‑neighbor policy.
Why it matters: The proposal would increase transparency about aircraft operations at a regional airport and could change how flight schools and airports manage training patterns; however, aviation representatives said federal law constrains what state or municipal…
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