The county airport is the only small airport to receive funding from the Airport Terminal Program grant administered by the FAA.
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Why is Portland’s airport called a jetport and known by the letters PWM?
Portland International Jetport serves more passengers than ever, despite some name-related head-scratching.
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Posted inFranklin
Rangeley to receive $11.47 million to extend airport runway
RANGELEY — The town has learned it will receive almost $11.5 million to expand the runway at Stephen A. Bean Municipal Airfield for emergency medical services. The funding will also cover other key enhancements to support air medical transport in the rural area. “Of course this a good thing for the Rangeley Lake’s area and town […]
Posted inFranklin
Bethel pilot, passenger uninjured when plane crashed into Poplar Mountain
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — A Bethel pilot and his passenger were “very lucky” to survive when their airplane lost power and crashed into Poplar Mountain on Oct. 20, a Maine warden said Wednesday. Pilot Karl Olson, 30, and Michael Orsini, 26, of Raymond took off from Sugarloaf Regional Airport in Carrabassett Valley in a single-engine Cessna […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Oxford County given 150-acre parcel near airport
PARIS — A business partnership has donated 150 acres abutting the Oxford County Regional Airport in Oxford to the county. Fiddle Head Partners, an Oxford-based partnership of John Schiavi and Win Carrick, has transferred a deed for the parcel to the county for free. County Administrator Scott Cole said the non-cash, charitable contribution was a culmination […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Oxford County mulls proposals for regional airport
PARIS — County officials are reviewing business proposals from local companies as they seek to find a new tenant for the Oxford County Regional Airport, according to County Administrator Scott Cole. The county officials have been looking for a new tenant to take over the building’s lease ever since Oxford Aviation was evicted on April […]
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Small plane makes emergency landing
HARPSWELL — The Federal Aviation Administration says a small airplane had to make an emergency landing in Harpswell. Spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says two people were aboard the single-engine Van’s Aircraft RV-4 when the pilot reported a fuel problem Sunday evening. The plane landed on a grass airstrip in Harpswell with no injuries. Bergen says the […]