North Shore Helicopter Route

In ruling to extend the route just one week before it was set to expire, the FAA cited unresolved questions about the future of East Hampton Airport.

East End elected officials came together yesterday in a show of unity to demand a local public hearing on the north shore helicopter route. The FAA says its "workshops" were "a format is consistent with the purpose of the directive" in Rep. Lee Zeldin's statute and that's all local residents are going to get.

Rep. Lee Zeldin renews demand for FAA to comply with his legislation requiring a public hearing on the North Shore Helicopter Route and urges residents to submit their comments to the FAA online.

Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Lee Zeldin both wrote to FAA officials yesterday demanding the public hearing required by legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump last month.

It was hard to find a local resident or official at the event last night who wasn’t angry about not just helicopter noise but the format of the event itself.

The FAA on Friday opened a formal 60-day comment period on the North Shore Helicopter Route and the impacts of helicopter traffic on the East End. Here's how to voice your opinion.

An amendment sponsored by NY-1 Rep. Lee Zeldin to the FAA reauthorization bill requires the agency to hold a public hearing in affected communities and accept public comment before acting on the north shore helicopter route.

The Federal Aviation Administration has dismissed Southold Town’s petition asking the agency to require East End-bound helicopters to use the FAA-established South Shore Route.

Relations between local officials and the Federal Aviation Administration, at odds for several years over helicopter flight paths, grew even more turbulent after the two town supervisors on the North Fork yesterday accused federal regulators —and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer — of being less than forthright.

In a blow to local residents and public officials looking to force Hamptons-bound helicopter traffic to the south shore or force the aircraft to stay over water until a point east of Plum Island, the FAA is moving forward with a four-year extension of the existing “north shore helicopter route,” which is set to expire in two weeks.