Tuesday, May 14, 2013
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the news on Friday.
The air traffic control tower at McCollum Field, one of 149 regional airport towers that the FAA decided to close as part of a plan to meet $637 million in cuts required under budget sequestration, has been spared. Funding was scheduled to cease for the 149 towers on June 15. However, "the recently enacted Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013 will allow the FAA to transfer sufficient funds to end employee furloughs and keep the 149 low activity contract towers originally slated for closure in June open for the remainder of fiscal year 2013," the FAA said Friday in a statement. This is the second time that the FAA has amended plans to close the towers. In late March, the FAA announced that McCollum would close May 5. The next month, the FAA …
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
"We will use this additional time to make sure communities and pilots understand the changes at their local airports,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.
The Federal Aviation Administration has pushed back the date that it will cut funding to the air traffic control tower at Kennesaw's McCollum Field, the agency announced on Friday. The new date is June 15. That's more than one month after the original May 5 date announced in late March. “This has been a complex process and we need to get this right,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. “Safety is our top priority. We will use this additional time to make sure communities and pilots understand the changes at their local airports.” The McCollum tower is one of 149 regional airport towers that the FAA decided to close as part of a plan to meet $637 million in cuts required under budget sequestration. To be …
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
The Federal Aviation Administration made the announcement on Wednesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration will cut funding to the air traffic control tower at Kennesaw's McCollum Field on May 5, the agency announced Wednesday. The McCollum tower is one of 149 regional airport towers that the FAA decided to close as part of a plan to meet $637 million in cuts required under budget sequestration. To be clear, McCollum Field will not close. Instead, planes will have to "rely on plane-to-plane communications in order to land" at McCollum, airport manager Karl Von Hagel told the Marietta Daily Journal earlier this month. Thousands of airports operate safely throughout the United States with and without control towers today, according to the FAA, which will begin a phased closure of the 149 towers beginning on …
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Friday, March 22, 2013
The Federal Aviation Administration made the announcement today.
It's official. The air traffic control tower at McCollum Field in Kennesaw is closing. The Federal Aviation Administration made the announcement today. In addition to McCollum, Lawrenceville's Briscoe Field is on a list of 149 towers slated to close. The tower at Fulton County's Brown Field, which was on an earlier list of potential closures, was one of 24 towers across the country that the FAA spared. Closing those towers "would have a negative impact on the national interest," the FAA said in a news release. Earlier this month, the FAA proposed closing 189 air traffic control towers as part of a plan to meet the $637 million in cuts required under budget sequestration. McCollum airport manager Karl Von Hagel told the Marietta Daily …
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Seven people will lose their jobs as sequestration cuts take effect on April 7.
The air traffic control tower at McCollum Field in Kennesaw is expected to be shut down due to sequestration cuts taking effect April 7. McCollum was on a list of more than 100 potential tower closings that the DOT released in February. Airports that made the list have fewer than 150,000 flight operations per year, and are non-airline focused. This week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) notified Cobb County that it would cut funding for McCollum's on-site traffic control. Airport manager Karl Von Hagel told The Marietta Daily Journal that "planes will have to rely on plane-to-plane communications in order to land" after the shutdown of McCollum's control tower. This will likely make the field a less efficient operation, and cause …
Friday, February 22, 2013
The cuts are scheduled to take effect March 1.
The air traffic control tower at McCollum Field in Kennesaw will likely close if automatic budget cuts take effect March 1, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced today. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said if Congress does not work out a solution by the deadline, the DOT will need to cut nearly $1 billion dollars. More than $600 million of that will come from the Federal Aviation Administration. McCollum is on a list of potential tower closings that the DOT released today. More than 100 air traffic control towers at airports with fewer than 150,000 flight operations per year made the list. Other metro area airports that will be impacted by the cuts include Brown Field in Fulton and Briscoe Field in Lawrenceville. "These …
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
"Everyone is safe," Officer Mike Bowman, spokesman for the Cobb County Police Department, told Kennesaw Patch.
A plane bound for McCollum Field had to make an emergency landing this afternoon on Interstate 575 South just south of Barrett Parkway. Three people were aboard the plane, a fixed wing single-engine aircraft that is registered to Jesse Smalley of Kennesaw, according to the Federal Aviation Administration Registry. "No injuries on the ground and no injuries in the aircraft," Officer Mike Bowman, spokesman for the Cobb County Police Department, told Kennesaw Patch. Bowman said he learned of the emergency landing at 1:06 p.m. today. According to the Atlanta Journal-Consitution, the plane was on its final approach to McCollum Field when it lost power. The plane was manufactured in 1965, according to the FAA. Authorities were still on the scene…
Thomas Kirchhofer, DCt
11:06 am on Friday, March 29, 2013
As a former FAA Air Traffic Controller, I can say with some authority that McCollum Field will now be more dangerous. We have far surpassed the time for "See and Be Seen" and voluntary check in's on a local radio frequency. The impact on businesses will be felt as companies move their corporate jets to another place and who could blame them if they take their companies leave out of Cobb … more ›