Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Combs Field Airport

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 06:38, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Combs Field Airport

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This airport no longer exists. The former airport's FAA code has been reassigned to a heliport at a hospital complex. The former airport is not sufficiently notable to be saved as a "former airport". The heliport at the current hospital complex is not sufficiently notable to convert the airport article to a heliport article. Therefore, I believe the best alternative is to simply delete the article. Canglesea (talk) 16:10, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, or rename to "Norton Audubon Hospital Heliport" (source) if some notability can be established (which I doubt). The Heliport has the same FAA code as the former airport. -- Scjessey (talk) 16:49, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
comment Notability is not temporary. I don't know what sort of guidelines there are for airports, but if defunct licensed radio stations are notable enough for inclusion I don't see why an airport wouldn't qualify as well riffic (talk) 16:51, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, neither the former airport nor the heliport are notable, so the point you make is somewhat moot. -- Scjessey (talk) 16:59, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

you're saying it's not notable but are not presenting any evidence or guidelines that cover airports, so your point is also moot. riffic (talk) 13:23, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding notability of airports, see draft guidelines: Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports/Notability. This private airport was not notable when the article was written and has deteriorated from there. - Canglesea (talk) 22:14, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. -- Eastmain (talk) 22:21, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- Eastmain (talk) 22:21, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. There may be some confusion here. I found references to Paintsville-Prestonsburg-Combs Field Airport, airport code 9KY9, former code 3I6, which seems to exist but does not yet have a Wikipedia article. Perhaps this article ought to be moved to that location. See this reference: On June 6, 2005, at 1800 eastern daylight time, a 1966 Hughes TH-55 helicopter, N2KX, was destroyed during an attempted takeoff from the Paintsville-Prestonsburg-Combs Field Airport (3I6), Paintsville, Kentucky." See also This reference and this reference. -- Eastmain (talk) 22:21, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Paintsville-Prestonsburg Combs Field has an article, but it is not located near Hebron, Kentucky, the location of the subject airport. Our difficulty finding any information about the subject airport contributes to its non-notability. -Canglesea (talk) 23:20, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) Merge and redirect to Hebron, Kentucky#Air. There should be a page at 1KY8 (the FAA code) linking to the information about this airport and also linking to the information about the facility that currently has the code (if it isn't notable enough for it's own article then put the info about it as a section on the locality article). Thryduulf (talk) 23:21, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge what? There is nothing in the Combs Field Airport article to add to the locality article, Hebron, Kentucky, that isn't already there, including the FAA code: (1KY8), which is incorrect! -Canglesea (talk) 23:43, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Former airports are notable - see Lympne Airport and Berlin Tempelhof Airport for examples. However, these are both adequately sourced and referenced, which this article is not. If no sources can be found it should be deleted. Mjroots (talk) 14:32, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 22:07, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Black Kite 10:50, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There's no information here, there's nothing in Google that indicates there's any chance data will be here anytime soon. Moreover, Great Circle Mapper (http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=1KY8-CVG&RANGE=&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=mi&PATH-MINIMUM=&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE= ) indicates the FAA code given is 81 miles form CVG, not 4 as the article states. Some closed airports are relevant- there will likely always be an article about Berlin's Tegel airport after she closes in a couple years. But this doesn't seem to have been notable when it was operating, and its determinately not now. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 14:22, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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