The Opa Locka War
Business & Commercial Aviation magazine has published a 7 page expose on the illicit happenings at Opa Locka Airport. The magazine is published by Mcgraw-hill under their Aviation Week subsidiary. It has a very broad reach throughout the aviation community and will undoubtedly land on the desks of airport and FAA administrators across the country.
George C. Larson’s investigative reporting is fair and even handed. It balances the positive intentions of developing the airport with the scummy, and sometimes Machiavellian tactics used to remove competition from this airport.
A long-term development lease was supposed to have been accomplished by April 2006. “The county kept stalling and stalling, because at the same time they were negotiating with Adler, and they didn’t want us to know this,” [Tony Robinson] says. “Essentially what they did was to give him our land.”
The pressure on Miami-Dade Aviation and AA Acquisitions is building. How long until the county – or the courts, decides to dissolve their lease and distribute the land properly among the aggrieved tenants of Opa Locka Airport?
Read the full Business & Commercial Aviaiton – Opa Locka War story at AviationWeek.com