Legal Opinion

City of Pierre v. Federal Aviation Administration

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided July 24, 1998No. 97-3232PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

The City of Pierre and Gary Drewes petition, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 46110(a) (1994), for review of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) order decommissioning the Flight Service Station (FSS) at the Pierre Regional Airport in Pierre, South Dakota. We grant petitioners’ motion to supplement the petition for review, and we affirm the FAA’s closure order.

I. Facts and Background

In the 1920s, the first FSSs were established in order to provide ground communication with mail airplanes flying between Washington, D.C. and Oakland, California. See Flight Service Station…

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  1. City Of Pierre v. Federal Aviation AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1998

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