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HUNTINGTON — Cabell County Airport Authority President David Clark asked the Cabell County Commission on Thursday to extend its deadline on the proposed sale of the Robert Newlon Airport property
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.