Legal Challenge to Agreement to Close Santa Monica Airport Dismissed

A local pilot’s legal challenge to the agreement the city of Santa Monica reached to close Santa Monica Airport has been dismissed, the city announced July 11.

On July 5, U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez dismissed a lawsuit brought by pilot Barry Rosen seeking to invalidate the agreement that the city reached with the Federal Aviation Administration in early 2017 to shut down the municipal airport by the end of 2028.

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