Boy Scout’s Eagle project should make it possible soon for people parked at the town’s airport to hear live radio traffic from pilots taking off and landing.
Equipment being installed, approved by town aviation officials, will broadcast pilot communications to the car radios of anyone parked in the public lot outside the runway, a spot where people stop to look at the small planes and occasional helicopter that fly out of the airport. The town purchased the former Robertson Airport in 2009.
Equipment being installed, approved by town aviation officials, will broadcast pilot communications to the car radios of anyone parked in the public lot outside the runway, a spot where people stop to look at the small planes and occasional helicopter that fly out of the airport. The town purchased the former Robertson Airport in 2009.
Colin Stamm, a Newington resident who proposed the project to help achieve his Eagle Scout rank with Troop 355, said Friday he and several other scouts plan to install the radio equipment in a few weeks.
“I have a passion for aviation and got the idea when I went to an aviation convention and saw people with earphones that allowed them to listen to pilots,” said Stamm, 16, a junior at the Greater Hartford Academy of Aerospace and Engineering.
“I looked around and thought Plainville would be the best spot for this. The parking lot is right next to the runway.”
Stamm asked town officials for permission last fall to install the equipment and got it from the town council, town manager and Plainville’s aviation commission which oversees operation at the small airport where about 40 planes are kept.
Stamm asked town officials for permission last fall to install the equipment and got it from the town council, town manager and Plainville’s aviation commission which oversees operation at the small airport where about 40 planes are kept.
Stamm asked town officials for permission last fall to install the equipment and got it from the town council, town manager and Plainville’s aviation commission which oversees operation at the small airport where about 40 planes are kept.
Stamm asked town officials for permission last fall to install the equipment and got it from the town council, town manager and Plainville’s aviation commission which oversees operation at the small airport where about 40 planes are kept.
Stamm’s father has a small plane at Hartford’s Brainard Airport, which sparked the student’s interest in aviation.
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