Suburban Airport

[6] The airport hosted meetings of the Experimental Aircraft Association and aviation-oriented youth education programs such as Young Eagles flights.Aircraft had limited access to leave, then eventually arrivals and departures were granted under the flight rules of the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone.Polm publicly announced plans prior to the hearing to expand Suburban Airport to support 300 aircraft, 100 hangars, helicopter charters, and operate a flight school if the increased zoning failed.By late 2012, the airport owner had yet to expand hangars and operations as announced in 2004, efforts to bring gambling to nearby Laurel Park had failed, BRAC-related inflow ceased in 2011, declining home prices and interest rates from the recession greatly reduced the need for workforce housing developments, and the county's school and water demands were beyond capacity from overdevelopment.[13] After the county announced that it would seek school construction sites elsewhere in 2012, the project was started on a neighboring parcel[14] once occupied by the Laurel Moose lodge and sold to the Children's Guild.
First customer – June 1960. An ERCO Ercoupe taxis to its tiedown at Suburban.
Final approach for 21 – summer of 1998
New threshold in foreground, looking toward the old threshold
Suburban Airpark
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