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News from, about, and relevant to Save Our Heritage and our mission.

  • Jet Hangar project proposes lease of One hangar

    June 3, 2025
    Developers announced a tentative lease of one of the 18 proposed new hangars to a company developing autonomous flight technology.  For the duration of the lease on this one hangar, the tenant proposes…
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  • Answering questions about SAF benefits

    May 25, 2025
    Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) are claimed to reduce jet CO2 emissions by up to 80%.  Yet it is also argued that SAFs are not a “clean” aviation solution.  How can these contradictory claims…
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  • Update on Luxury Hangar Project

    May 14, 2025
    At the May 14 Massport Community Advisory Committee (MCAC) meeting, Massport and the project proponents provided an update on the Hangar Project. The proponent is creating an updated Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR)…
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  • New Land addition to Barretts Farm

    April 14, 2025
    A two-acre portion of the Barrett Farm, the objective of the British on the first day of the American Revolution, has been saved and added to Minute Man National Historical Park.  This land,…
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  • A Historic Stand Against Private Jet Expansion

    April 1, 2025
    Event sponsored by: Save Our Heritage The Walden Woods Project National Trust for Historic Preservation National Parks Conservation Association WGBH – Emerson and Thoreau’s descendants urge for grounding of Hanscom airport April 1,…
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  • Article on Hanscom Expansion Debate

    March 29, 2025
    THE NATION: The World Doesn’t Need Any More Private Jets. This article accurately describes the major impacts of private luxury aviation and the fight of environmentalists to control it. Author Chuck Collins has…
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  • News stories relating to the North Airfield Project

    October 20, 2024
    Here are links to various news stories related to the North Airfield Hangar Expansion Plan of Hanscom Field.  Newest stories on the top.  The public was only made aware of this project a…
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  • Study Finds Alarming Increase in Private Jet Impacts

    September 20, 2024
    A European study finds large and growing impacts from private jet aviation. The study, by Linnaeus University in Sweden, examined 18 million private jet flights from 2019 to 2023. The study confirms the…
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  • Commonwealth Rejects Luxury Jet Hangar Project Draft Environmental Impact Report

    June 21, 2024
    The Mass Secretary of Energy and Environment has rejected the Proponent’s Draft Environmental Report for the massive private luxury jet hangar project. In the 53 page rejection, the Commonwealth found the report did not…
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  • SOH files Comments on Luxury Hangar draft Environmental Impact Report

    June 6, 2024
    The developer has outrageously claimed that the hangar project, which doubles the jet hangar capacity at the airport, is Net-Zero and that it will have no impact because increased flights are “projected to…
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  • National Trust for Historical Preservation Declares Area Endangered 

    May 1, 2024
    Today by the North Bridge where the “shot heard round the world” was fired, the National Trust for Historic Preservation lists Minute Man National Historical Park, Walden Woods, and other surrounding national landmarks…
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  • Independent Study Refutes Developer’s Ferry Flight Claims

    April 16, 2024
    The developer of the North Airfield hangar project for private luxury jets has claimed that the project will reduce both Greenhouse Gas emissions and the number of flights due to elimination of “ferry…
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