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Airport tree removal plan, FAA grant pending; Timberline Helicopters tax incentive approved
Summary
Bonner County Airport Manager Dave Schuck told Sandpoint councilors on March 5 that the county plans to remove trees that have or will penetrate aircraft approach surfaces at Sandpoint Airport and expects an FAA grant later this year to fund the work.
Bonner County Airport Manager Dave Schuck briefed the Sandpoint City Council on March 5 about a planned obstruction removal project at Sandpoint Airport and about how the county plans to protect approach surfaces that aircraft use when landing.
Schuck said the county owns navigation easements purchased in 2021 that give it the right to control airspace over defined approach surfaces, and that tree growth on a hillside southwest of the Schweitzer Cutoff roundabout and in a creek corridor east of Boyer Avenue has encroached or will encroach on those approach surfaces. He said the county has applied…
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