Document ID: FAA-2013-0259-3501
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Airport Property: New Castle Airport, New Castle, DE
Posted Date: 2023-02-07T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8032-8033]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02478]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Notice of Intent To Rule on a Land Release Request To Sell On-
Airport Property Conveyed by the United States of America Through a 
Surplus Property Act and Remove It From Airport Dedicated Use at the 
New Castle Airport (ILG), New Castle, DE

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of release request to sell on-airport property conveyed 
through a Surplus Property Act and remove it from dedicated use.

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SUMMARY: The FAA is requesting public comment on the Delaware River and 
Bay Authority's proposed land release and sale of 2.94 acres of airport 
property at the New Castle County Airport in Wilmington, Delaware. The 
subject property was conveyed by the United States of America through a 
Surplus Property Act instrument of transfer in 1949. In accordance with 
Federal regulations, this notice is required to be published in the 
Federal Register 30 days before the FAA can approve the sale of this 
property.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 2, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Comments on this application may be emailed or delivered to 
the following address:

Greg Suchanoff, Senior Project Engineer III, New Castle County Airport, 
2162 New Castle Ave., New Castle, DE 19720, (302) 571-6492

and at the FAA Harrisburg Airports District Office:
Rick Harner, Manager, Harrisburg Airports District Office, 3905 
Hartzdale Dr., Suite 508, Camp Hill, PA 17011, (717) 730-2830.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Higgins, Project Manager, 
Harrisburg Airports District Office, 717-730-2843, location listed 
above. The request to release airport property may be reviewed in 
person at this same location.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Delaware River and Bay Authority, 
operating consistent with the operating agreement with New Castle 
County (owner of property) is proposing the land release and sale of 
2.94 acres of airport property at the New Castle County Airport in 
Wilmington, Delaware. The 2.94 acre subject parcel includes a 26,783 
square foot office building, and approximately 4,800 square yards of 
vehicle parking, with the remaining area comprised primarily of mowed 
lawn. The parcel is not currently required or anticipated to be 
required for aeronautical use. The subject parcel is bounded as 
follows:
    All that certain tract, piece or parcel of land situate 12 Penn's 
Way, New Castle Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware and shown on a 
plan prepared by VanDemark & Lynch, Inc., Engineers, Planners and 
Surveyors, Wilmington, Delaware, dated January 6, 2020, entitled 
``Exhibit Plan, 12 Penn's Way'', File No. 23599.35-EXHIB-01 and being 
more particularly bounded and described as follows, to wit:
    Beginning at an iron pin found, a southerly corner for land now or 
formerly of the Delaware River & Bay

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Authority (Deed Record 2090, Page 252) on the northeasterly side of 
Penn's Way (a 60 foot wide public road), said point being measured 
along the northeasterly and easterly sides of said Penn's Way, the 
three (3) following described courses and distances from the 
southwesterly end of a corner cut-off joining the southerly side of 
Commons Boulevard (a 110 foot wide public road) with said easterly side 
of Penn's Way:
    1. South 06[deg]04'44'' East, 108.30 feet to a point of curvature;
    2. Southeasterly, by a curve to the left having a radius of 242.84 
feet, an arc length of 192.59 feet to a point of tangency, said point 
being distant by a chord of South 28[deg]47'56'' East, 187.58 feet from 
the last described point; and
    3. South 51[deg]31'08'' East, 484.38 feet to the Point of 
Beginning;
    Thence, from the said point of Beginning, along southeasterly, 
southwesterly and northwesterly lines for said land now or formerly of 
the Delaware River & Bay Authority (Deed Record 2090, Page 252), the 
three (3) following described courses and distances:
    1. North 38[deg]23'27'' East, 373.10 feet to a point;
    2. South 51[deg]36'33'' East, 345.90 feet to a bent iron pin found; 
and
    3. South 38[deg]23'27'' West, 347.43 feet to a bent iron pin found 
on said northeasterly side of Penn's Way;
    Thence along said northeasterly side of Penn's Way, the three (3) 
following described courses and distances:
    Northwesterly, by a curve to the right having a radius of 242.83 
feet, an arc length of 113.87 feet to a point of tangency, said point 
being distant by a chord of North 64[deg]57'10'' West, 112.83 feet from 
the last described point; and
    North 51[deg]31'08'' West, 236.11 feet to the point and place of 
Beginning. Containing within said metes and bounds, 2.94 acres of land, 
being the same, more or less.
    The proposed action consists of the land release for sale of Tax 
Parcel ID #10-018.00-006 (the PARCEL) from Wilmington/New Castle County 
Airport (ILG) ownership. The existing office space on the parcel is 
currently vacant. The interested buyer intends to use existing office 
building and parking area as a pandemic response center for the 
Delaware Air National Guard which would be considered a non-
aeronautical use. No exterior physical alternations to the subject 
parcel are currently proposed. The parcel is located on the on the 
northwest portion of ILG. Any person may inspect the request by 
appointment at the FAA office address listed above. Interested persons 
are invited to comment on the proposed release. All comments will be 
considered by the FAA to the extent practicable.

    Issued in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, January 31, 2023.
Rick Harner,
Manager, Harrisburg Airports District Office.
[FR Doc. 2023-02478 Filed 2-6-23; 8:45 am]
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