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CURRENT AND POTENTIAL USERS OF HORACE WILLIAMS AIRPORT <br /> Current Use <br /> The inventory of current users of Horace Williams <br /> airport contained in "General Aviation Airport Need and Sites <br /> Survey" remains accurate. The only significant change in <br /> users is that Williams Aviation is no longer in service. <br /> Conversations with current users indicate minor variations <br /> between user data representing 1980 and user data repre- <br /> senting 1986. This seems to reflect the cap on the number of <br /> aircraft that the University will allow to be based at the <br /> airport . <br /> The current users of Horace Williams Airport are much <br /> the same as those in 1980. They are: North Carolina Medical <br /> Foundation (AHEC) , the Chapel Hill Flying Club, Carolina <br /> Flying Services , North Carolina Forest Service, and general <br /> transient aircraft that are not based at Horace Williams . <br /> Based on comments from airport xsers , the number of flight <br /> operations in 1986 were approximately the same as in 1980. <br /> Carolina Flying Services , NC Forest Service, and transient <br /> flight activity were all reported to be approximately 1400 , <br /> or 12% higher. The number of aircraft based at the airport <br /> is also unchanged at the 50 aircraft maximum set by the <br /> University'. <br /> Potential Users <br /> No specific information was available regarding poten- <br /> tial users of the airport . No current user indicated an <br /> intent to increase the number of aircraft they had based at <br /> the airport. Of course, any such increase would require a <br /> corresponding decrease in the number of aircraft based at <br /> Horace Williams airport by others since the maximum number of <br /> • aircraft based there cannot exceed the current number. If <br /> the cap of 50 aircraft were removed, the Airport Manager <br /> indicated that there was an immediate demand to base 60 <br /> . aircraft at the airport, <br /> Location Requirement <br /> One current user, AMC, indicated very significant <br /> • locational requirements. The airport used as a base for <br /> AHEC, it was indicated, should be no more than 15 minutes <br /> drive from North Carolina Memorial Hospital . Locational <br /> preferences were indicated by others. Carolina Air Services <br /> indicated that the airport should have convenient ground <br /> transportation access to population centers. The aircraft <br /> owned by the N.C. Forest Service is part of the emergency <br /> preparedness plan for Shearon Harris power plant . . It must be <br /> based at a location convenient to too nnwn. , 1 ,-4 <br />