4/11/2026 The Southern California Aviation United Working Group (SCAUWG.ORG) Editorial: Regarding the yet unknown Trifiletti Whiteman Airport Land Use Study release date. It should be noted that the Office of Economic Development (OED) just tendered $200,000.00 in addition to the original $1.3 million cost, to per an informed source’s recent published report extend the release date until after the June 2026 elections. This was described as time to allow for MORE community engagement. That may be questionable.
One might ask if the study results have already been foreshadowed, and if the sponsors of the study, who have well voiced their anti-airport bias, feel they need more time and another chance to try and change the already well established pro-airport community position, and save those sponsor’s and their campaign fueled by misinformation, from public embarrassment. So as to avoid continued debate, we hope that the Trifiletti study will accurately describe the majority of community opinion, as well as the facts already agreed to over two decades ago by LA County and the FAA via regulations. That agreement included the benefit of perpetuity for the airport, and dictates the land use must be maintained for aviation. FAA precedent has upheld these types of agreements. It would truly be unfortunate if allowing an important public resource recently used for emergency services and fighting the LA Fires, to be transformed into a non-aviation commercial private development.