June 30, 2021 : By Ted Allen - Office of Communications & Public Engagement
Liberty Belles II team pilot Chloe Cady (left) and Kristi Serafin were featured in the Air Race Derby virtual awards banquet.
The five female aviators from Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics (SOA) who represented the Liberty Belles in this month’s Air Race Derby gained valuable flight planning experience on whirlwind weekend journeys completing their identical five-leg routes out of Lynchburg Regional Airport to North Carolina and back in one day.
After the 85 teams from around the United States finished their respective flights of at least 325 nautical miles between June 12-26, results were announced in a virtual awards banquet on Sunday. Piloting two of the 20 Cessna Skyhawks in the Liberty SOA fleet, the Liberty Belles II team of Chloe Cady and Kristi Serafin landed in 10th place and the Liberty Belles I trio of Erika Jordan, Meredith Boardman, and Savannah Rotmeijer came in 41st, also w
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BY SHANNON KELLY
The (Lynchburg) News & Advance
BEDFORD â Liberty University s efforts to expand the New London Airport onto adjacent properties hit a snag Wednesday.
LU had filed a motion asking a Bedford circuit judge to strike a September 2019 decision by the county zoning appeals board. That board s decision was to deny LU s request to rezone more than 460 acres of property around the airport, which would allow the university-owned airport to expand.Â
But on Wednesday, a judge denied LU s motion.
LU purchased the New London Airport in 2015 for $1.8 million. It owns a total of about 467 acres of surrounding property.
In 2019, Liberty submitted a request to rezone the surrounding property to allow development of a general aviation facility for the Liberty University School of Aeronautics. The proposal included a three-phase development process that would include relocation of a runway and construction of additional structures.