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Silver Comet Field at Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport (also known as Silver Comet Field) is a small public use airport in Paulding County, Georgia, United States.〔 Formerly known as Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport and Paulding County Regional Airport,〔 〕 it is owned by the Paulding County Board of Commissioners.〔 The airport is located in Dallas, Georgia,〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Contact )〕 northwest of Atlanta.〔 It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''general aviation'' facility.〔 〕 Paulding County, located in northwest Metro Atlanta, encompasses 314 square miles and is home to approximately 150,000 residents. Source On October 4, 2013, nearly one year after negotiations and contracts, Paulding County announced a Public Private Partnership with an entrepreneurial startup company called Propeller Investments, llc dba Propeller Airports, llc dba Silver Comet Terminal Partners, llc to develop its airport, which proposed including commercial passenger service, despite the head of the Paulding County Airport Authority's promises to the county residents of transparency and that the airport would remain a general aviation airport. Paulding residents immediately filed several lawsuits, which addressed violations of Georgia's Sunshine Laws and Open Meetings Act, and an ultra vires suit against the Paulding County Industrial Building Authority for overextending its authority. Many of these lawsuits have been filed by attorneys associated with Delta Airlines October 2013: Residents file a legal challenge to bond funding for a Paulding airport taxiway expansion that will facilitate airline service. November 2013: Residents file a second legal challenge, questioning Federal Aviation Administration environmental approvals of Paulding airport plans. December 2013: A judge rules in favor of the airport and county in the bond funding case. Residents pledge to appeal. Attorneys announce a settlement of the FAA case, calling for an environmental assessment that will delay the commercialization of the airport for months. January 2014: Paulding residents file a third legal challenge, questioning airport leases and a loan made to fund the taxiway expansion. (SOURCE ) Paulding's airport is located on Rockmart Highway (U.S. Route 278), approximately 25 miles from the nearest interstate and 40 miles from Midtown Atlanta. Construction was completed in late 2008. It is the ninth local airport in metro Atlanta, and the first new jet-capable airport in Georgia since 1975. To date more than $70M has gone into the construction and development of the airport. Paulding County has spent roughly $10 million of its own money, about ($55 million ) in Federal Aviation Administration grants and $7 million in state funds on the airport. It is anticipated that economic development activity at the airport could result in more than ($350 Million ) in annual economic activity and thousands of jobs for Paulding County over the next decade. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned PUJ by the FAA〔 but has no designation from the IATA〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Paulding County Regional Airport (ICAO: KPUJ, FAA: PUJ, IATA: none) )〕 (which assigned PUJ to Punta Cana International Airport in the Dominican Republic〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Punta Cana International Airport (IATA: PUJ, ICAO: MDPC) )〕). == History == In 1975, in anticipation of a second international airport, the city of Atlanta purchased of land in Paulding for $925 per acre. In early 2007 the county purchased of the property for the new general aviation airport.〔 Paulding County is unserved by either rapid transit or freeways. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silver Comet Field at Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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