Ways to take action and get involved to preserve our Quality of Life
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."
Please write an UPDATED (FEB2025) letter today to the Airport Commissioners, Town of Plymouth Selectboard and Town Manager, Town of Carver Selectboard and Town Administrator, MA Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, your US Representative, State Senator and State Representative (updated adding Plymouth Selectmen email and Representative Michelle L. Badger - Massachusetts Legislature).
Even if you sent one before, please take a minute to send again as new language has been added. Please share this website with your family, friends and neighbors.
Join our movement to bring Plymouth Airport back to the recreational /Emergency/Safety Services Airport it is supposed to be. Together, let's say NO to extending the runway to accommodate the Falcon 2000, and JETS of similar size that have appeared over the last few years, bringing noise and air pollution, threatening our water supply, real estate values and ruining our quality of life!
Sign SPJE Petition to the Governor urging her to stop the private jet expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere. Dear Governor Healey, We, the undersigned, respectfully and urgently ask you to use the full measure of your powers to stop Massport’s expansion plans for private luxury jet capacity at Hanscom Field, a project which will produce hundreds of thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions, in opposition to every Climate goal that our towns, cities, Commonwealth, and the nation are working arduously to achieve.
Please share widely! Numbers matter!
JOIN THE SPJE STATE HOUSE RALLY!
TUES, OCT 14th 10:30am
Gather on State House Steps, 24 Beacon Street, Boston
Let's expose "Sustainable" Aviation Fuels (SAFs) as FRANKENFUELS - the"green" fuels that will come to haunt us!
SAFs don't justify private jet expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere!
Please notify the Plymouth Airport directly of your noise complaints or concerns.
Phone: (508) 746-2020 Email: mcardillo@plymouth-ma.gov and cc the CAC Chair, Adam Bond, abond@adambondlaw.com
The Airport Commission wants to hear from more of us if you are impacted, upset, disturbed by the noise from the loud, low flying planes, the repetition of training school circling over the same areas, the jets ignoring the noise abatement policy, the JETS period! As many times that you are impacted, if you don’t let the airport know every time, they don’t know you are impacted.
If you do not let the airport and the town officials know you do not want more issues with an expansion, the expansion will happen.
Plymouth Airport Community Advisory Committee (CAC) meets on the 4th Thursday of every month (@ 6pm) Conference Room at the airport, 246 South Meadow Road, Plymouth, MA 02360. Public Comment is welcome, so please come or Zoom-in and express your concerns.
CAC CONTACT - Chair, Adam Bond, abond@adambondlaw.com
9/30/2025: Plymouth Selectmen chose Lorraine Ramsey for the Plymouth CAC position. One concerned resident of making a difference!
In person or Zoom. We will add the zoom link as it becomes available. These meetings are your opportunity to make your voices heard. See Agenda Airport CAC
Request a free Lawn Sign! We have business cards to hand out as well to direct people to our website. Spread the word!
(When you request a free lawn sign please include your address in your message and we will gladly deliver lawn signs and business cards to you)
Your voices were heard in the May 17th election! We welcome Bill Keohan and Deb Iaquinto to the Plymouth Selectboard! The time for change has come.
We have received some helpful recommendations for how to get residents involved; Social media is very influential. Post your concerns on All Things Plymouth. If you don't have a Facebook page, you should get one. Ask to present to the West Plymouth Steering Committee. Make public comments at select board meetings. Do the same at Planning Board meetings. Ask to meet with the town manager. Every time there is a meeting, make sure you have a sign-up sheet to ask for emails. Walk around the affected neighborhoods and go door to door to give residents information about airport meetings.
Are your Precinct Town Meeting Members sympathetic with your cause? Urge them to attend the airport meetings.
Anything you can do to help us would be greatly appreciated. Please contact us if you can help in any manner.
Virtual Roundtable for communities fighting airport expansions
We joined Katie and Lilly on the SPJE Team’s virtual Roundtable for communities in the region fighting airport expansions on Wed, Feb 5th. In this meeting we learned about crowdsourcing information, learned how our campaigns may overlap and where they may diverge and that each community's fight is part of a larger trend based on the aviation industry’s plan for continued, indefinite growth. Communities all over the country are fighting the same issues we are with the Plymouth Municipal Airport. Let’s continue to learn how we can strengthen our efforts and best support each other.
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Comments: Plymouth/Carver Neighbors Selections were made on 2/3/2025 by the Select Board at the time for the Plymouth Airport Community Advisory Committee (CAC). Unfortunately, only one neighbor surrounding the airport who stated they were against the airport expansion was selected. No women were chosen. No other residents right next to the airport that expressed their concerns about the expansion were selected. Since then, 2 of the Plymouth CAC members have voiced their concerns about the expansion after hearing from more residents, and/or per their personal experience of the jets flying over their own homes.
3 of 4 Carver representatives stated they were for/fine with the airport expansion. One Carver rep did not have an opinion but has now withdrawn from the committee leaving a vacancy.
7 of the 8 Plymouth residents chosen have aviation backgrounds or work/worked at an airport and support the expansion either vaguely or specifically. The grandson of the Airport Commissioner was selected. No residents were selected from the Matthew’s Trail neighborhood right under runway 6/24. The Plymouth Select Board totally disappointed us in February 2025 voting contrary to their stated intent for this committee. They said they wanted an even and fair committee, representing the residents with concerns and those without, then they eliminated the very neighbors under the runway path most greatly impacted. We thought they wanted both sides represented.
In June or July 2025, one CAC member moved onto the Airport Commission itself. No notice was made to the town opening up that position for applicants that we saw. Now another CAC member has just dropped out. It’s a new Select Board, so we are hopeful, the two vacancies can actually be filled by residents with concerns over the Airport’s expansion plans, so the meetings can be more productive than they have been over the last 5 months. See the link above to apply.