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  • Navy pursues new options for aircraft landing practice

    04/02/2010 11:51:22 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 20 replies · 649+ views
    Sun Journal ^ | 3/3/2010 | Sun Journal Staff
    After looking for a decade to buy a dark place in the country to practice landings of its noisiest aircraft, the Navy has decided to look at renting airport space for quieter aircraft landing practice and to keep the big jets working at home. Navy Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, Va., announced Friday that it will survey public and private airfields within 90 nautical miles of Norfolk Naval air station for interest in renting landing strip time for its turboprop planes to practice. The Navy has not abandoned its search for an outlying landing field, said Ted Brown, spokesman for...