Friends of Bend Airport
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Friends of Bend Airport needs your support to provide a unified advocacy for the entire General Aviation community at the Bend Oregon Municipal Airport.
This group is engaged with legal teams to best represent the entire GA community, businesses, aircraft owners, and pilots. Proper legal representation costs money, so we need your financial support!
Friends of Bend Airport strives to work with the airport management and regulators to implement plans and policies that will benefit the tenants, businesses, and airport users, and the City of Bend.
FOBA was founded by airport tenants and businesses to help make the Bend Municipal Airport the best it can be. We do this by giving voices to the users of the airport, the businesses on the airport and the airport’s neighbors. These voices need to be heard as plans and policies are developed and implemented with regard to how the airport is developed and operated.
Presently, the airport is developing a new 10-year master plan. The master plan is the principal guiding document that specifies how the airport will be developed and operated, and how it will be funded.
The airport is owned and operated by the City of Bend, and has a full-time airport manager, with a part-time staff. There is no oversight authority, and the Bend City Council typically shows little interest. The airport is outside the city limits and lies within the jurisdiction of Deschutes County. Therefore, the county is the primary regulatory authority in how the land is used and developed.
The airport is an “FAA Airport”, which means it has been designed, developed and is operated consistent with the United States Federal Aviation Administration’s guidelines and rules as a public-use airport. This makes the airport eligible for FAA grant funds. Those grant funds have been the single largest source of development funds, amounting to tens of millions of dollars. However, FAA grants always come with stipulations called grant assurances. These are obligations that bind the city to develop and operate the airport “The FAA way”.
The current airport master plan project is one example of a mostly FAA-funded project. You can check it out
Our organization has tenants, airport users and businesses participating in the airport master plan project. Although the City of Bend, Deschutes County, and the FAA are the primary decision makers, through the Friends of Bend Airport you can have a voice, and we make sure it is heard.
Please consider joining FOBA, and volunteer, or just be informed.
This group is engaged with legal teams to best represent the entire GA community, businesses, aircraft owners, and pilots. Proper legal representation costs money, so we need your financial support!
Friends of Bend Airport strives to work with the airport management and regulators to implement plans and policies that will benefit the tenants, businesses, and airport users, and the City of Bend.
FOBA was founded by airport tenants and businesses to help make the Bend Municipal Airport the best it can be. We do this by giving voices to the users of the airport, the businesses on the airport and the airport’s neighbors. These voices need to be heard as plans and policies are developed and implemented with regard to how the airport is developed and operated.
Presently, the airport is developing a new 10-year master plan. The master plan is the principal guiding document that specifies how the airport will be developed and operated, and how it will be funded.
The airport is owned and operated by the City of Bend, and has a full-time airport manager, with a part-time staff. There is no oversight authority, and the Bend City Council typically shows little interest. The airport is outside the city limits and lies within the jurisdiction of Deschutes County. Therefore, the county is the primary regulatory authority in how the land is used and developed.
The airport is an “FAA Airport”, which means it has been designed, developed and is operated consistent with the United States Federal Aviation Administration’s guidelines and rules as a public-use airport. This makes the airport eligible for FAA grant funds. Those grant funds have been the single largest source of development funds, amounting to tens of millions of dollars. However, FAA grants always come with stipulations called grant assurances. These are obligations that bind the city to develop and operate the airport “The FAA way”.
The current airport master plan project is one example of a mostly FAA-funded project. You can check it out
Our organization has tenants, airport users and businesses participating in the airport master plan project. Although the City of Bend, Deschutes County, and the FAA are the primary decision makers, through the Friends of Bend Airport you can have a voice, and we make sure it is heard.
Please consider joining FOBA, and volunteer, or just be informed.
Organizer and beneficiary
Ryan Neil
Organizer
Bend, OR
Kim Muinch
Beneficiary
