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Old 12-21-2009 | 02:08 PM
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Default RE: Flying Fields Lost and Why

Two RC fields in OKC were moved.
The Baxter Field flyers original site on the Lake Stanley Draper Reservation was closed due to the opening of a new Police shooting range. They were located 2-3 miles farther south.
The Westside club orignally at NW 50th and Morgan road got a new paved runway right down the middle of their field 4 lanes wide and 14 miles long, the John Kilpatrick Turnpike around OKC. They moved to leased land 3 miles west of the old location.

Our CL park for life in central OKC Topping park is being destroyed for new interchange of I-44 and I-235. There was a lawyer that kept defending the land, which was given to the city as a flying park inperpetuity but he evidently gave up the fight.

The TORKS of OKC had a second field in some undeveloped land. But it fell out of favor with the club. The runway is still there:

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And as documented else where around here my old club in Akron Ohio the Corsair Model Club is losing a site because the county parks department doesn't want noisey little airplanes flyin OVER park land.