The Carson City Airport
THE CARSON C I TY A I RPORT “So, we’re currently in the process of working with the Phoenix flight standards district office of the FAA and what they call the All Weather Operations (AWO) division, and there’s been some simulations created that we’re going to present to the FAA in hopes of getting that instrument approach restriction alleviated. We made a presentation at the Nevada Airport Association’s conference in March, and the Airport District Office out of Phoenix was present, as was a gentleman from the AWO office. The presentation was extremely well- received and, being that we are a general aviation reliever airport for the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, and being that we are part of the national airspace system with access to state government, we think that there’s a real high probability that this project may be funded in the future.” Moen also met with the Associate Administrator for Airports, FAA in Boston to lobby for the improvements. Moen would also like to be able to extend the Airport’s runway another thousand feet. “So, we’ll
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