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Article: Queen City Airport's future is up in the air.
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- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2005
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Byline: Jeanne Bonner
Sep. 23--A developer has proposed moving Allentown's Queen City Airport to an airfield in Heidelberg Township to pave the way for redevelopment of the general aviation airport near Interstate 78.
Carver Mills Properties wants to move Queen City to Flying M Aerodrome in Germansville so the 208-acre parcel on Lehigh Street, which city officials have long considered valuable, developable land, could be converted into a commercial property.
Carver has been working with the city since 2000 to find a new site for the airport.
The move would need to be approved by Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority, which owns Queen ...