PA: Trump’s Weekend Getaways Threaten To Doom Historic Airport

May 18, 2017

ERWINNA, Pa. ― Steady rain drenches the grass airstrip. A gleaming 1928 biplane called the Bird of Paradise will stay in its hangar for now, behind the long-winged gliders and their towplanes that, in nicer weather, carry sightseers and thrill-seekers, and sustain tiny Van Sant Airport in rural Bucks County.

Bar Eisenhauer, an antique airplane buff who runs the two-runway airport with his wife, Dannie, said they can deal with bad weather, even though their livelihood depends on a six-month season of taking tourists for rides in old airplanes. Rain eventually stops, he said, and they can often squeeze in a few customers before dark.

But the Eisenhauers now face a problem far worse than no-fly weather ― something that threatens to put them out of business: President Donald Trump’s weekend trips to his golf club across the Delaware River in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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