Van Nuys Airport (VNY) "is ranked as the world's busiest general aviation airport. VNY averages nearly one-half million takeoffs and landings annually, with 454,753 total operations in 2004. More than 100 businesses are located on the 730-acre airport, including six major fixed-base operators and numerous aviation service companies. VNY is one of four airports owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, including Los Angeles International, Ontario International and Palmdale Regional."
Some of these takeoffs and landings involve "stage 2" private jets and some of the Van Nuys Airports' neighbors in the San Fernando Valley area of the City of Los Angeles who say they are tired of having their peace, quiet, and privacy disturbed by flights of this type of plane as they arrive at or depart from the Van Nuys Airport yesterday brought their perspectives to a meeting of the City of Los Angeles'
Board of Airport Commissioners, which had assembled for an afternoon meeting at the
Airtel Plaza Hotel immediately adjacent to the Van Nuys Airport itself.
You can watch and listen to comments from Charles Brink, who wants the phase-out of "stage 2" jets at the Van Nuys Airport, and Wayne Williams, a board member of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners' Association (soha) and chair of its Airport Noise Committee, who also wants as rapid as possible a phase-out of that type of small business and charter service jet, which were recorded near the room where the Board of Airport Commissioners was holding its hearing yesterday afternoon at the Airtel Plaza Hotel, by clicking on the appropriate buttons in the Brightcove Player below.
You can also watch and listen to comments by Don Schultz, President of the Van Nuys Homeowners Association, who takes a somewhat different approach to the question of phasing out "stage 2" flights in and out of the Van Nuys Airport, by clicking on the link to his video, below.
