After rebuffing the FAA’s offer to enhance safety areas around the airport, including the FAA’s offer to install an engineered material arresting system to accommodate 90 percent of the Category C and D aircraft utilizing the airport, Santa Monica officials defend their March 2008 ordinance to ban Category C and D jets (such as Gulfstreams and some Citations and Challengers) from operating at the airport. Santa Monica is appealing the FAA’s July 8 decision that the city had no authority to ban jet operation.
The AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) and the FAA oppose the ban.
