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HUNTINGTON — Following several months of debate and negotiations, the Cabell County Commission unanimously approved a letter of intent to sell the Robert Newlon Airport property near Lesage.
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HUNTINGTON â Cabell County Commissioner Jim Morgan says the county commission wants out of the airport business, so itâs offering to sell the Robert Newlon Airport property.
The problem is that the board the commission wants to sell the airport to has no money and no funding source.
The commission owns the Robert Newlon Airport property near Lesage. The property is owned by the Cabell County Airport Authority and managed by Carl Bailey, owner of the Fly In Cafe, under a 30-year lease agreement with the airport authority.
At a meeting of the airport authority on Thursday, Morgan, the commissionâs representative on the five-member airport authority, said the commission has offered to sell the property to the airport authority for $200,000. The offer was made in a letter from Ancil Ramey, the commissionâs special attorney, to airport authority President David Clark. The offer is open until June 1.
HUNTINGTON â A public meeting of the Cabell County Airport Authority regarding the future of the Robert Newlon Airport is scheduled for noon Thursday.
The May 13 agenda says the meeting will take place in the Cabell County Commission chambers and is to discuss the âCommissionâs proposal to sell the county airport property to the Authority.â
Controversy regarding the Airport Authority erupted in November 2020 after the commission attempted to pass a resolution to dissolve it permanently. The Airport Authority is comprised of five members appointed by the County Commission. It has two Democrats, two Republicans and one county commissioner.
At that meeting, nearly two dozen people spoke against the resolution and said it was an attempt that would also lead to terminating the 30-year lease agreement the Airport Authority has with Carl Bailey, owner of the Fly In Cafe at the airport. Bailey began managing the airport in 2006.