I am writing regarding the Dec. 4 and 11 Airport Commission and the Plymouth Airport Community Advisory Committee meeting. A letter was submitted to the commissioners from Alpha One Flight School. Was it an offer/proposal to begin working together to meet the needs of the public? Clearly, we don’t know because Transparency is not the Airport Commissions strong point.
What was in that letter?
There were other topics at the Airport Commission meeting on the 4th, but my reason for writing and attending meetings is to request the flight schools to be more considerate of all of us that must put up with all the lessons of “touch and go” and the volume of planes flying over our houses. It’s become a terrible nuisance.
This lack of information is just another reason there is so much frustration between the public and the Commission. As noted in other discussions [over many months] there is no transparency.
Where is the transparency about these issues? Where are the minutes of the meetings? There have not been any minutes reported since May 2025. There is nothing reported on the website.
Lastly, on the Dec. 11 meeting, discussion of the extension of the 351 feet of the 6-24 runway remains on the agenda. At the October Town Meeting the members approved the repaving of the runway, but not the 351 feet. This extension would allow more jets, more fuel fumes, more noise, more chance for accidents.
What do we do as a public to satisfy the Airport Commission or the Plymouth Airport Community Advisory Committee, or even the town members to realize that life has changed [for those] living around the airport from when we all purchased our homes years ago? Now we can’t even sit in our own backyard during the summer or work from home with the windows open because of the noise. It seems that it may only get worse if we continue to do nothing to bring this to the forefront of the people and the town.
I hope that Alpha One has proposed something that will meet us in the middle. And that the other flight schools, Professional Airways and Goulian Aerosports will follow suit with some compromises.
But we need people to attend these meetings and simply say, “We don’t want any more extension, nor do we want additional flight lessons.”
The next Plymouth Airport Community Advisory Committee meeting is Jan. 29 at the airport at 6 p.m. Every resident needs to attend.
Art Ceurvels and Kathy Pelletier