- December 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Skydive Lone Star needs to close up shop by the end of 2021 but does not have another airport to relocate to.
LULING, Texas — Luling’s Carter Memorial Airport is now Caldwell County’s Carter Memorial Airport, but soon it won’t be an airport at all.
For years, the airport was not fit for commercial service. Only paragliders and a skydiving company used the runway for recreational use, according to Luling City Manager Mark Mayo.
“We would not be available for any of the 90/10 money unless we were to lengthen our airport and bring it up to the standard for tech start, which meant we would have to widen the airport and lengthen the airport,” Mayo said. “Due to the fact we would have to lengthen the airport, we’d have to purchase more property because we did not have the…
