After two attempts last year to sell the South Shore Regional Airport did not go ahead, the airport's future looks a lot like its past. The municipality recently signed 20-year leases with a flying club and a drag racing association that use the airport.
Mayor Darlene Norman said the motion to sell the South Shore Regional Airport to the Nova Scotia Drag Racers Association below fair market value was dropped in a 5-3 vote.
Officials with the Region of Queens Municipality say the sale of an airport to the Nova Scotia Drag Racers Association is not final, and they're not saying why a different offer that was more than 10 times as large fell through.
South Shore Regional Airport to get long awaited fuel system
May 19, 2021 May 19, 2021
By Kevin McBain, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Lighthousenow Progress Bulletin
Managed by the South Shore Flying Club, Liverpool/South Shore Regional Airport, CYAU, is a registered aerodrome located in Greenfield, Nova Scotia, which opened in 1970. (Photo: South Shore Flying Club).
It’s been more than 10 years since the South Shore Regional Airport in Greenfield, Nova Scotia, has had any kind of a fuel system to refuel the private airplanes that fly in and out of there. Now that’s about to change.
The Region of Queens Municipality (RQM) has set aside $50,000 in its 2021-22 budget for a new, above-ground fuel supply system to be installed there. Work is expected to take place later this year.