- Date
- circa 1967-07
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Airport Commission
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationinfrastructuretransportation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The July 1967 Beaver Beacon reported that Jewell Gillespie asked Congressman Phil Ruppe to intervene on a delayed FCC request for an electronic homing device at Beaver Island airport. Ruppe obtained assurance that the request would be approved.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper report of an administrative intervention. It does not provide the FCC authorization, installation record, or equipment details.
Sources
- Reports Jewell Gillespie discussing a delayed airport electronic homing-device request with Congressman Phil Ruppe, who obtained FCC assurance that it would be approved; it does not provide the authorization, installation, or equipment record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1967-07_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published communications and airport notice; it does not expand the source-specific FCC or installation claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1967-07_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “FCC approval pursued for Beaver Island airport homing device, 1967”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-airport-homing-device-approval-1967/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1967, “Beaver Gets Fast Action from Ruppe.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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