City might forgo airport grant to guarantee 2028 closure
Santa Monica Airport (SMO) has been assigned $69,000 from the federal government as part of the Coro
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Uber tests drone food delivery, launches new autonomous SUV
Uber is testing restaurant food deliveries by drone. The company’s Uber Eats unit began the tests in San Diego with ...
Runway removal to begin June 16
Parts of the Santa Monica Airport (SMO) runway will be removed this summer, almost two years after City Council decided ...
NASA’s first-of-kind tests look to manage drones in cities
NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing ...
Airport Runway to be chopped at both ends
The City Council green-lit plans to shorten the runway at Santa Monica Airport Wednesday by removing over 700 feet of ...
Despite City agreement with FAA, legal challenges to closing SMO persist
A Los Angeles pilot and a Santa Monica pilot-in-training have filed a lawsuit alleging the City’s agreement with the ...
Pilot sentenced to prison for flying without a license
An Orange County man has been sentenced to ten months in prison for flying a plane out of the Santa ...
American Flyers ready to close up shop at Santa Monica Airport
After a decade-long relationship between American Flyers and the City of Santa Monica at SMO, the fix-base operator ...
Business group: runway shortening at SMO is a “near-total ban on jets”
As the City races to demolish nearly 1,500 feet of runway at Santa Monica Airport in an attempt to ...
Anti-airport activists find little to celebrate in deal to eventually close SMO
A thin, wispy contrail overhead and the nearby rumbling of plane engines served as a backdrop for Saturday’s protest ...
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