I would love to delete this website. I would love to stop paying a renewal fee for the domain and hosting costs. At this point, I would settle for not having to write posts like this, but alas, let’s continue with the usual torture.
Item: Hangar Baffle Seals
In January, I called out a straightforward problem: Hangars That Don’t Hang Together. It was obvious, documented, and fixable (the issue has existed far before that, but I only wrote about it on here in January).
Status: No repairs, no plan, no visible effort. There are still 25+ hangars with deteriorating baffle seals, some with them literally falling off. This isn’t due to complexity or cost, the research on products was already done. I know that it was because I was the one who did it for them and handed over a set of products that would be satisfactory.
Item: South Ramp: SCAPA cleaned up the ramp from weeds and requested the County to slurry seal the cracks.
Status: The south ramp has once again been allowed to revert to weeds. This isn’t new—it’s the exact same condition we documented before, repeating on cue. Routine maintenance isn’t getting done.
So while basic upkeep and known infrastructure issues are ignored, where is the County focusing?
Item: G100UL.
Thousands of gallons purchased, with practically no adoption. By all indications, the only regular user has been the former County Airports Director, Eric Peterson. Known problems sit unresolved, while money is being spent on fuel no one is buying to virtue signal about a fake lead problem.
This is no longer about oversight or delay. It’s a pattern of neglect paired with misplaced priorities.
- Problems identified
- Solutions provided
- Maintenance ignored
- Money spent elsewhere
San Martin Airport isn’t abandoned. It’s active, used, and relied upon by pilots and the local community. What’s missing is accountability by Santa Clara County.
Nothing here is complicated, so why is nothing getting done?