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                    [ArticleID] => 1371845
                    [Title] => Foreigner fences Sta. Fe airstrip, shoos away “trespassing” mayor
                    [Summary] => 

The police arrested Saturday afternoon an Englishman after he allegedly started constructing a fence around the Sta. Fe airstrip in Bantayan island and claimed the facility as his own.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1184754 [AuthorName] => Bryner L. Diaza nd Michael Vencynth Braga [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 776278 [Title] => 14 hurt in Batanes plane mishap [Summary] =>

More than a dozen passengers of a light plane were hurt when it fell into a shallow ravine after touchdown at an airfield in Batanes’ Itbayat town Thursday morning.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 745876 [Title] => In Santa Fe town Capitol finishes airstrip phase 1 [Summary] =>

The Cebu provincial government has finished the first phase in the construction of an airstrip in Santa Fe town.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1623449 [AuthorName] => Niña G. Sumacot-Abenoja [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 416169 [Title] => LOCAL NEWS: Troops defuse bomb in Jolo airstrip [Summary] =>

ZAMBOANGA CITY - The military defused an improvised bomb planted at the airstrip of Jolo airport in Sulu by suspected al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf, according to an official.

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-18 13:32:17 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321454 [Title] => DOTC rejects proposal to commercialize Fort Magsaysay military airstrip [Summary] => FORT MAGSAYSAY, Palayan City — The dream of local government officials in Nueva Ecija to turn the existing military airstrip inside the military reservation here into an airport for joint civilian and military use will never be realized as the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) rejected the proposal.

DOTC Secretary Leandro Mendoza ruled out the possible conversion in the future of the two-kilometer airstrip into a combined military-civilian airport.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097277 [AuthorName] => Manny Galvez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318031 [Title] => Camotes Island: Cebu’s promising tourism area! [Summary] => Last Friday morning, I boarded an Agusta A109A helicopter owned by my good friend Bobby Urgello, piloted by Capt. Felipe Verula and co-piloted by Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority board member Winglip Chang for the 60-kilometer, 20-minute flight to the island of Camotes, the only major island municipality in Cebu province that I had never set foot before. We flew to San Francisco, Camotes for the inauguration of its old decrepit airstrip, which the MCIAA, together with the province of Cebu under Gov. Gwen Garcia, refurbished back into operational use.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 169017 [Title] => Rehabilitated Basilan airport reopened [Summary] => MENZI AIRFIELD, Basilan - The screeching of the tires and the roaring of the engine of a military C-130 cargo plane as it taxied at 10:30 a.m. here yesterday may have signaled the arrival of new hope, peace, development and stability in this poverty-stricken and war-torn province.

The landing of the C-130 military plane was a moving spectacle to local government leaders, local military men and residents who lived in terror for the past several years. A thunder of applause erupted once the aircraft touched down and taxied to a stop down the airstrip.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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