Falcon Field

Thefts on Field (copy of Airport Mgmt's Letter)

11/28/01 Airport Mgmt Letter re (1) Thefts on Field & (2) 9/11

Dear Tenant,

We would like to make you aware of two separate issues of concern. While not wishing to cause undo alarm, we would like to inform you of a problem we are having at Falcon Field Airport. There have been several fuel thefts on the airport in the past few months. Additionally, a business was broken into and had tools and other items stolen very recently.

If you are aware of any unusual activity or suspicious people near any aircraft on the airport, we ask that you please call us at 480-644-2444, the Police Department at 480-644-2211, or if there is a real emergency, call 911. Airport management has been and is continuing to take steps to alleviate this problem. We ask that if you experience a fuel theft, or any kind of theft, please report it to the Police Department and to airport staff. Please feel free to call if you have any information.

On a separate issue, following the September 11, 2001 multiple terrorist attacks against U.S. civil air carriers, involving the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the FAA has been advising of the potential for follow-on terrorist attacks.

As they have on several occasions in the past, the FAA is seeking cooperation from the airport owners and operators in helping safeguard the air transportation system. They have raised the security posture of all Part 107 airports throughout the United States and feel it is prudent to inform all airport and airfield operators of their concern. Accordingly, to help keep public and private airfields safe and secure during the foreseeable future, they are requesting our help. While, as a tenant, you obviously are not an owner or operator of an airfield, we would like to make you aware and request your help if you see any of the following:

> Aircraft with unusual or unauthorized modifications;

- Persons loitering for extended periods in the vicinity of parked aircraft or in air operations areas;

- Pilots who appear to be under the control of other persons;

- Persons wishing to obtain aircraft without presenting proper credentials or persons who present apparently valid credentials but do not have a corresponding level of aviation knowledge; or

- Anything that doesn't look right! (i.e. events or circumstances which do not fit the pattern of lawful normal activity at the airport.)

If you see something highly dangerous, such as weapons or explosives, being loaded on an aircraft; or if you have other reason to believe that a serious crime or some sort of attack is about to occur, immediately call local law enforcement authorities on 911 and the nearest FBI office at 602-279-5511.

Again, this letter is intended for your information and to relate to you information we have received.

Sincerely,
/s/ Victoria L. Kerr
Managemenet Assistant II


City of Mesa
Falcon Field Airport
4800 Falcon Drive
Mesa, Arizona 85215-2506
480.644.2444 Tel
480.644.2419 Fax
http://www.ci.mesa.az.us/airport/homepage.htm