Quiet Skies Over Arapahoe County is a grassroots organization formed by residents due to the 78% increase of flight training over our community. Hundreds of touch-and-goes and training maneuvers are being flown each day using piston-engine airplanes that use leaded fuel over our homes, schools and parks.  These planes fly at very low altitudes creating noise and lead pollution putting our health, safety and quality of life at risk. 

Our Mission is to reclaim the livability of our homes and neighborhoods!

What You can Do: 

Sign this petition asking elected officials to take legal action, similar to what the Town of Superior and Boulder County is taken, against Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport  https://change.org/regainourcommunities 

Contact your local elected officials and ask that they take legal action similar to the Town of Superior and Boulder County is against Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport. Form Letter & Contact Info here

Email a Personal Impact Statement (how noise and lead pollution has impacted you) to the following State Reps:

• • • Phil Weiser, Colorado Attorney General Email: OCE@coag.gov

    • Jeff Bridges, our State Senate District 26 Email: jeff.bridges.senate@coleg.gov & steve@stevefenberg.org

    • Chad Clifford, our State Rep District 37 Email: chad.clifford.house@coleg.gov 

Contact Elected Officials Crow, Hickenlooper, Bennet & Arapahoe County Commissioners (see email list below)

• • • Let them know how this has affected you, your family and quality of life

    • Recommend the FAA reverts the flight school training plane pattern back to south of Arapahoe Road with formal noise abatement

    • Ask them to schedule a town hall to discuss this issue with impacted residents and constituents 

What Quiet Skies over Arapahoe County has accomplished

We attend and make public comment at the monthly Centennial Airport Authority and Centennial Airport Community Noise Roundtable meetings advocating for change. We've enlisted the support from neighbors, friends, community leaders and elected officials. We create awareness through social media, local media outlets and newspapers. Our group has worked hard and is proud of the following achievements:

• Due to our group's work the elected officials staffers from Jason Crow’s office (DC and Aurora) and Hickenlooper's office have been attending meetings virtually. See the press release sent by Crow, Hickenlooper and Bennet to the FAA above.

• We've met with our new County Commissioner Jessica Campbell-Swanson. She is very concerned for our community and has committed to making changes. She was also appointed to the new Centennial Airport Authority Board of Commissioners.

• Our group informed the Cherry Creek School District Board of Education by speaking at their Dec. 2022 meeting.

• We've created this website, Facebook page and an informational community flyer and canvassed many neighborhoods talking to residents throughout the community.

• Created awareness through local media channels which include 9 news articles, story in the Denver Post, interview with Denver CBS news and several local newspapers. 

• We've learned the airport receives millions of dollars in grants from the FAA that have strings attached. And flight schools make up over 50% of the airports operation numbers. The airport is building a new 45M air traffic controller. 

•  Fought to get unleaded fuel at Centennial - However, its use is not mandatory

•  Enlisted the support of Congressman Crow, Senator Hickenlooper, Senator Bennet, State Representative Ruby Dixon, the Cherry Creek School District, and Arapahoe County Commissioners 

•  Created community awareness and aligning all neighborhoods for the cause

•  Attended and activitly participated in public airport meetings, challenging and holding the airport authority accountable

Our Concerns

• The health & safety risks of flight school aircrafts practicing hundreds of touch and go's daily, at low altitudes, using leaded fuel over our homes and schools. 

• The noise and it’s affects on our homes, mental health, and quality of life!

• Safety & crash concerns

Our ASK: 

• Revert this flight plan to stop flying north of Arapahoe Road

• Obtain a formal Noise Abatement for all residential communities north of Arapahoe Road

• Elimination of flight schools using leaded fuel

• Work with elected officials to minimize touch and go’s at Centennial Airport

What can you do?

• Attend airport meetings | Noise Roundtable https://centennialairport.com/noise-roundtable & Airport Authority https://centennialairport.com/virtual-boardroom

• File environmental harm reports to the EPA | File Now

• File noise complaints daily | File Complaint Now

• Spread awareness - let your neighbors know what is happening! | Text or email community flyer Flyer - PDF Format or Flyer - JPG Format

• Write your local congress person(s) | See elected officials list below

• Join our Facebook Group | Join Now

• Get involved - We need your support! Become an advocate for your neighborhood. Subscribe to emails. Subscribe Now 

Tell the EPA to Ban Leaded Aviation Fuel

While the use of leaded gasoline in most cars was banned 25 years ago, leaded aviation gasoline is still used in nearly 170,000 piston-engine aircraft across 20,000 airports. EPA estimates that emissions from these airplanes account for about 70% of lead released into the atmosphere.  

Send form letter to EPA Director Michael Regan

Airport Meetings

Centennial Airport Community Noise Roundtable Meetings 

The CACNR community/public meetings are held the 1st Wednesday of each month at 6:30p at the Centennial Airport 7565 South Peoria Street, Englewood CO 80112.  If you can't attend in person you can register to join via GoToWebinar at https://centennialairport.com/noise-roundtable

Recordings of 2023 CACNR meetings: https://centennialairport.com/2023-cacnr-archive

Archived CACNR Meeting Minutes: http://centennialairportnoise.com/board-documents/

Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority Meetings 

The Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority conducts its public meeting on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 3:00p, except January, at the Centennial Airport 7565 South Peoria Street, Englewood CO 80112. You can register to join via GoToWebinar at https://centennialairport.com/virtual-boardroom

Recordings of Airport Authority Meetings: https://centennialairport.com/2023-minutes

Meeting Minutes: https://centennialairport.com/2023-minutes

Centennial Airport Community Noise Roundtable (CACNR) Sub Group Update Report

View Report - Oct. 4 2023  

File Noise Complaints - Centennial Airport

File noise and report low flying too as frequently as possible. The airport must look into each complaint and report them to the FAA. File Complaint Now

Contact Airport, Elected Officials & FAA

Executive Director of Planning & Development at Centennial Airport | Mike Fronapfel | Email: mfronapfel@centennialairport.com

Arapahoe County Commissioners 

Jessica Campbell-Swanson | Email: jcampbell-swanson@arapahoegov.com

Bill Holen | Email: bholen@arapahoegov.com

Jeff Baker | Email: jbaker@arapahoegov.com

Leslie Summey | Email: lsummey@arapahoegov.com

Colorado Congressmen District 6 Jason Crow’s Local Denver Office | Terrell Horton | Email: Terrell.Horton@mail.house.gov 

Colorado Congressmen District 6 Jason Crow’s D.C Office | Mackenzie Fallt |  Mackenzie.Fallt@mail.house.gov

or fill out online Form Letter

** You can call and leave a message at Jason Crow's office at 202-225-7882

Senator John Hickenlooper's Office | Sam Boger | Email: Sam_Boger@hickenlooper.senate.gov

Senator John Hickenlooper's Office | Kevin Vargas | Email: kevin_vargas@hickenlooper.senate.gov

NEW: Online Form Letter

Colorado State Rep - Ruby Dickson Email: Ruby.Dickson.house@coleg.gov

Cherry Creek School Board of Education -  ccsdboard@cherrycreekschools.org and superintendent@cherrycreekschools.org

Contact the FAA

Email concerns to the FAA Northwest Mountain ombudsman person who serves as a public liaison for issues about aircraft noise questions or complaints. 

Colorado FAA Ombudsman: Justin Biassou 

Email: 9-anm-noise@faa.gov

Phone: 206-231-4202

Colorado FAA Rep - Michael Valencia Email: Michael.Valencia@FAA.gov

Website Report noise and low flying planes to the Northwest Mountain Region FAA Noise Portal. Report Noise to FAA

Flight Radar: See What's Happening in the Skies above

This website provides real-time flight data on where planes are located, where they've been and who the airplane is owed by. Locate Centennial Airport and start clicking on the airplane. It will show you the hundreds of daily laps (touch and go's) flight school planes are performing. 

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

Community/School Info Flyer

Flyer - PDF Format

Get Involved

Get involved and to see how you can help by joining our Facebook Group and/or Subscribing to Emails

Other Colorado Groups 

SOS - Save our Skies passionate group of concerned citizens from all across the Colorado front range and beyond.

https://www.saveourskiesalliance.org/arapahoe-county.html