The Status of General Aviation Airports in Disaster Response Planning

Smith James Fielding
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Smith James Fielding: American Public University System

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 2012, vol. 9, issue 2, 18

Abstract: This study takes three approaches to discover historical and potential future roles of general aviation (GA) airports in disaster response. A national survey was attempted with 500 randomly selected public use airports. 20 airports were asked the same questions in interviews and site visits, but these airports were selected on the basis of past involvement in disaster response or self-selected for the study. The third approach was an analysis of the seven state aviation disaster operations plans existing in 2010. The main conclusions are that GA airports are willing to serve in disaster response, that many of them actively seek response roles, and that GA airports are better reflected in local disaster plans than in state plans, and in state plans than in national plans. Several types of further research are recommended.

Keywords: airports; general aviation; disaster; response; planning; plans; state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1515/1547-7355.1997

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