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Chatham airport for sale

Dec 18, 2023 12:52 am

Roger Hannigan Gilson reports in the Times Union that Kleinkill Airport in Columbia County is for sale for $1.5 million. The 37-acre Chatham airport has a 4,000-foot grass landing strip and 10 hangers that currently keep 39 small planes. George Kerner, a former American Airlines pilot, and Peter Nelson are both 80, and have decided it is, “time to think about unloading some things that we own.” The Federal Aviation Administration reports 900 flights there between summer 2019 and summer 2020, the most recent year on record, with 100 of the flights non-local. This private facility opened in the 1980s, and a publicly accessible airport owned by the county in the town of Ghent, are the only airports in Columbia County. Read more about this story in the Times Union.