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2025-11-24Docket Report: Vashon Island Fair Skies v. Federal Aviation Administration, Case No. 25-7373
Vashon Island Fair Skies, a Washington nonprofit corporation, has filed a petition for review against the Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Case No. 25-7373), docketed on November 24, 2025. The case challenges an FAA decision and is represented on the petitioner's side by attorney Steven M. Taber of Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman, with the FAA and U.S. Department of Justice defending the agency's position. This case likely relates to aircraft noise or airspace management issues affecting Vashon Island, located near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. -
2025-11-24
Docket Report: Vashon Island Fair Skies v. Federal Aviation Administration, Case No. 25-7373
ACMS Docket Report from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, docket number 25-7373, Vashon Island Fair Skies v. Federal Aviation Administration, docketed 2025-11-24. Petitioner is Vashon Island Fair Skies, a Washington nonprofit corporation, represented by Steven M. Taber of Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman, Inc. (Pasadena, CA). Respondent is the Federal Aviation -
2025-11-21Petition for Review of Agency Order: Vashon Island Fair Skies v. Federal Aviation Administration
Vashon Island Fair Skies (VIFS), a Washington nonprofit representing residents affected by aircraft noise, has filed a petition in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a September 2025 FAA decision approving near-term expansion projects at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The group argues that the FAA's environmental review failed to adequately address the significant noise impacts on Vashon and Maury Islands resulting from concentrated, low-altitude flight paths introduced under the FAA's NextGen navigation program. VIFS has been actively opposing these flight path changes since 2018, when new Performance-Based Navigation procedures began routing more aircraft directly over the islands at lower altitudes. -
2025-11-21
Petition for Review of Agency Order: Vashon Island Fair Skies v. Federal Aviation Administration
Petition for Review filed November 21, 2025, by Vashon Island Fair Skies (VIFS), a Washington nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation based on Vashon Island, against the Federal Aviation Administration, Administrator Bryan Bedford, U.S. Department of Transportation, and Secretary Sean Duffy in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Case No. 25-7373). VIFS challenges the -
2020-07-22Letter From Vashon Island Fair Skies to City of Sea-Tac Requesting Lobbying Support for Port Of Seattle Noise Monitor Raw Data Retention
Vashon Island Fair Skies, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, wrote to the SeaTac City Council in July 2020 requesting help pressuring the Port of Seattle to retain raw second-by-second data from its 24 airport noise monitors, which vendor L3Harris currently purges after processing. The letter argues this raw data is essential for accurate noise analysis, demonstrating with December 2019 monitor data that high background noise at some sites causes the processing software to miss many actual aircraft overflight events. The group asks the city to urge the Port to make a simple procedural change — either downloading the data itself or requiring L3Harris to deliver it — noting the storage requirement is a modest ~62 MB per monitor per month.