![]() ![]() The Leesburg Town Council approved a first, $270,000 outlay for the new tower on June 13 in anticipation of eventually being reimbursed through grants for what could be a $10 million project, the Loudoun Times-Mirror reported.Īs with the remote tower center, which was located at a nearby county-owned office building, the mobile tower is staffed by controllers employed by Oklahoma City-based Robinson Aviation through the FAA’s Contract Tower Program. The airport expects the mobile platform-a tower cab with radios and weather sensors mounted on a trailer-will stay in place until 2028 when the town hopes to erect a permanent ATC tower. Town-owned JYO is designated as a reliever airport for Washington Dulles and lays claim to being the second busiest general aviation airport in Virginia. northwest of the nation’s capital, expected to begin operating the mobile tower by June 22 after transferring “shout line” communications that had connected the remote tower operating center with the FAA’s Potomac Consolidated Terminal Radar Approach Control (Tracon) and Washington Dulles International Airport tower facilities. ![]() Managers at Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO), located 35 mi. LEESBURG, Virginia – The suburban Washington airport that has served as a testbed for the FAA’s remote tower program will rely on a mobile air traffic control platform for the next few years now that the agency has canceled the testing effort. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |