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City remembers Mark Benjamin
Morley Builders helped erect the monument to the Spirit of Santa Monica DC-3 at the Museum of Flying. (Daniel Archuleta...
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Brief: Sierra Club endorses park at SMO
Advocates of transforming Santa Monica Airport into a community park received an endorsement Monday from grassroots environmental agency Sierra Club....
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City Hall unveils new flight tracking at SMO
SMO— A new online system that allows public access to flight track data at Santa Monica Airport went into effect...
Read moreOfficials ID pair killed in plane collision
CALABASAS, Calif. — Los Angeles County authorities have released the names of two people who were killed in a collision...
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City Council increases landing fees, promises change at SMO
PREFLIGHT: Justice Aviation instructor Jordan LaMotte inspects one of the company's planes. (Photo by Daniel Archuleta) CITY HALL — The...
Read moreSecond body found after midair collision
CALABASAS, Calif. — A second body was found Tuesday at a rugged site in the Santa Monica Mountains where a...
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Flight school fears higher landing fees at SMO
Santa Monica Airport (File photo) CITY HALL — Pilots and flight school owners will keep a eye on the Airport...
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‘Queen Bess’ recognized by SMO for Women in Aviation Month
Coleman SMO — Before the Tuskegee Airmen or Amelia Earhart's head-turning escapades, there was Bessie Coleman. "The air is the...
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SMO pilots may get discount for installing mufflers
CITY HALL — The Airport Commission wants to explore incentives for pilots to fly more quietly in the wake of...
Read moreMuffler reduces airplane noise at SMO, tests show
SMO — Preliminary results of a test measuring the sound reduction capacity of a muffler on a small airplane are...
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