Optimist Club President Sabrina Best is pictured presenting Rick Lanman, director of the Auburn Lewiston Airport, with a copy of the Optimist Creed. Lanman updated the club on happenings at the airport, including the upcoming departure of the Lufthansa project and use of the remaining hanger. The A-L Airport remains the second busiest airport in […]
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Canadian military trains out of Auburn airport
A Royal Canadian Air Force Chinook CH-147F takes off Thursday afternoon from the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) The Royal Canadian Air Force 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron has been conducting training exercises this week over the White Mountain National Forest in Maine and New Hampshire. As part of that training, the RCAF has […]
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Auburn-Lewiston airport to start planning for massive hangar’s life after Lufthansa
Part of Lufthansa’s efforts to restore the Lockheed Constellation Starliners AUBURN — When Lufthansa Technik announced plans Thursday to dismantle its “Super Star” Constellation and send it back to Germany after a 10-year restoration project, the timing came as a surprise locally. Bettyann Sheats, chairwoman of the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport board of directors, said they knew […]
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Auburn-Lewiston airport is second-busiest in the state
AUBURN — During a snowstorm a month ago, a pair foxes were playing on an airport runway, oblivious to the twin-engine bearing down overhead. The pilot had to decide at the last second: land smack on a fox or ditch the plane? Suddenly, the closest animal looked up, bolted, and the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport maintained its […]
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Passenger counts at Maine’s biggest airports reached new heights last year
Portland and Bangor set all-time records in 2017, with more than 1.8 million passengers passing through the Portland International Jetport. The number of passengers flying through Maine’s largest airports soared to the highest point on record in 2017 as Maine attracted a historic number of tourists and airlines expanded options for locals. More than 1.8 […]
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Snowy owls cause problems at the Portland International Jetport
PORTLAND (WGME) — Some snowy owls and their admirers are causing problems for the Jetport. Snowy owls have returned to Portland International Jetport, and this year they are in fairly high numbers. Monday, CBS 13 videotaped a snowy owl right along a service road near the runway at the Jetport. Two others were seen as […]
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RIP Piper, a heroic dog who kept airport runways safe
On the last day of his nine-year life, Piper the border collie chased a snowy owl from the runway at the airport in Traverse City, Michigan. It was the 8,367th bird he had scared off in a three-year career as the airport’s K-9 wildlife control officer — which turned him into one of the nation’s […]
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Rangeley voters approve airport runway extension project
RANGELEY — Residents voted 265-88 on Tuesday to move forward on the final phase of an engineering proposal to add 1,100 feet to the town airport’s runway. The current runway – at 3,201 feet – is too short for the LifeFlight of Maine’s airplane to land when needed to airlift a patient to a hospital. Of the […]
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Rangeley voters to consider airport runway extension
RANGELEY — Voters are expected to decide Tuesday whether they want to extend the runway at the town airport by 1,100 feet to accommodate LifeFlight of Maine’s medical airplane. Voting hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Town Office. LifeFlight, through the Federal Aviation Administration, is proposing the extension to allow its King Air B200 […]
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World War II planes on display in Auburn
Robert Newberry of Windham squeezes along the catwalk as he makes his way through the bomb bay of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn on Wednesday. Newberry said his father flew in a B-24 during World War II. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft” lands at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in […]