Riverhead has had a love affair with aviation for decades, all during the period the old Grumman Corp. built fighter jets and bombers for the U. S. Navy at its huge facility in Calverton, within the town.
The flame is not quite so bright anymore, at least when it comes to heavy cargo planes or commercial passenger planes.
Town Councilman Tim Hubbard, who wil be the new Riverhead town supervisor in January, has introduced a resolution that would ban use of the runways at Calverton for a commercial passenger airport or a cargo airport. The resolution, which is to come to a vote before the town board next month, would be an amendment to the Planned Development District, the zoning that applies to the “industrial core” of the Calverton Enterprise Park.
