Friends of Bend Airport
Friends of Bend Airport Spring Meeting?
Hey, let’s get together this spring for a time of food, fellowship, fun, and learning. If you’d like to help us plan, staff and pull-off a spring meeting, we’ll promote it, and provide the resources. Whether we have a meeting, and the scope of that meeting is solely determined by how many of you come
Oregon Disaster Airlift Response Team (ODART), Central Oregon Chapter
They say the “Big One” is coming, and when it does, most Oregon airports will be rendered useless. Most roads and bridges too. The State is working to change that. In the meantime, there’s an organization that formed last year, and now it’s being formally organized, following last year’s state-wide exercise to prove that small
Bend Airport Web-based Discussion/News Forum
The Friends of Bend Airport already has an interactive public forum on our website. We’ve tested it. Click here to go to the forums. We’d like to go-live with it, but we’re hesitating. You can help us make it “Live” if you’re willing to be a co-moderator. Forums sometimes have a small element of “Bad
“If You Don’t Measure It, You Won’t Improve It”
Is the Bend Airport a “Fair”, “Good”, or “Great” airport? How do we know? What’s YOUR assessment? It’s been many years since Bend Airport users were surveyed, and there are few measurements of how well the airport serves its users and the community. Should we push to establish key performance indicators? Should we advocate for
Making the Bend Airport the Best It Can Be: Going Beyond the Airport Master Plan
The airport master plan addresses some very significant unmet needs, but it falls short of addressing quite a few seemingly lesser unmet needs. Taxi lane pavement, real restrooms and several other long-standing issues simply are not addressed. Why weren’t these items included in the plan, you ask? We’ll it depends – it’s either funding, it’s
Bend Airport Master Plan: Final Stages: Do You Know What’s In It?
The Bend Airport Master Plan is in its final stages of becoming complete. Probably around 6 months away. Presently Deschutes County is reviewing it, and it’s almost certain that changes will be made. Then it goes to the Bend City Council for approval, and we expect that to be quick – perhaps this spring or
