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Old 25th Nov 2019, 04:14
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Originally Posted by roundsounds
Councils aren’t trying to kill the Goose, they’re trying to get rid of the pesky aeroplanes so they can collect the golden egg by developing the land. mom quite sure this is the end goal.
Even a small airport like Warnervale would yield 400+ 3/4 acre blocks. In that case, it's $160,000,000 just in land sales, then there's the $1,000,000 a year in rates the council would bring in from those 400 homeowners. Plus another $24,000,000 or so to the local economy from another 400 families.

GA's got no hope of competing with numbers like that - even the most die-hard supporter of aviation has to be realistic, it is dying in this country with little to no hope of recovery.

Anyone want to buy an RV-9?
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