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Article: Atlantic City's Bader Field still operating - for blimps only
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- Press of Atlantic City
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- October 17, 2006
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ATLANTIC CITY - If you drove by Bader Field recently and thought you saw a blimp landing at the closed airport, you weren't imagining things.
Bader Field closed as a general aviation airport on Sept. 30, but the Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey blimp has permission to use the airport until Oct. 31, said the state Department of Transportation.
The state DOT, which oversees the state Department of Aeronautics, issued a temporary license certificate for blimps at the facility, said representative Erin Phalon.
She said Atlantic City, which owns the 143-acre site, applied for the temporary license, and could apply again. They could even apply for a license for private planes, she ...