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AC 150/5020-1 - Noise Control and Compatibility Planning for Airports, Chapter 3, Section 2
FAA’s AIP Handbook (Order 5100.38D), Appendix R
FAA | Surface and Overhead Aviation Easement (example)
Avigation Easement Law and Legal Definition
FAA Publication: Land Use Compatibility and Airports
Wisconsin Bureau of Aeronautics: Avigation Easements
Scholarly Articles
Ball, Carlos A., The Curious Intersection of Nuisance and Takings Law. Boston University Law Review
William B. Stoebuck, Condemnation by Nuisance: The Airport Cases in Retrospect and Prospect, 71 DICK. L. REV. 207 (1967).
Kahn, Richard, Inverse Condemnation and the Highway Cases: Compensation for Abutting Landowners, Boston College Environmental Affairs L. Rev. 22 (1995).
Dan H. Honeywell, Eminent Domain: Inverse Condemnation – What Constitutes a Taking?, 21 Fla. L. Rev. 257 (1968).
C. D. Hogue Jr., Aviation -- Liability of Airport for Low Flying -- Flights Through Airspace as Taking of an Easement, 25 N.C. L. Rev. 64
(1946).
Aviation Noise Abatement: Federal Control but Local Liability?, 22 URB. L. ANN. 301 (1981)
Kettelson, Ernest S. “INVERSE CONDEMNATION OF AIR EASEMENTS.”
Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal
3, no. 1 (1968): 97–110
Scott P. Keifer, Aircraft Overflights as a Fifth Amendment Taking: The Extension of Damages for the Loss of Potential Future Uses to Aviation Easements. Brown v. United States, 4 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 88 (1996)
Barnes, William C. "Considerations in Value Findings for Avigation Easements".
American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Journal
3, no. 42 (1974): 441-447
anon, Annual Survey of Washington Law, Determination of Time of Taking of Avigation Easement, 41 Wash. L. Rev. 574 (1966).
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2012. Fair Disclosure and Airport Impact Statements in Real Estate Transfers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Kettelson, Ernest S. “INVERSE CONDEMNATION OF AIR EASEMENTS.”
Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal
3, no. 1 (1968): 97–110.
Aviation Noise Abatement: Federal Control but Local Liability?, 22 URB. L. ANN. 301 (1981)
Richard A. Repp,
Wrongs and Rights in Superterraneous Airspace: Causby and the Courts
, 9 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 460 (1967)
Case Law
Virginia Highlands Airport Authority v Singleton Auto Parts Inc.
Opinion Pieces
Valuation of Avigation Easements: When it comes to rights and restrictions, even the sky has its limits.
Avigation Easements, and Lawsuits for Inverse Condemnation and for Nuisance
Broad Rights of an Avigation Easement
Valuation of Avigation Easements: When it comes to rights and restrictions, even the sky has its limits.
Adverse Possession vs. Prescriptive Easements: A Guide
The Jones Payne Group: Avigation Easements
Further Reading
Oregon board finds airport easement ordinance unconstitutional
Avigation Easements Explained
Proposed Avigation Easement Laws Could Create Toll Roads in the Sky for Drone Operations
Checking for Avigation Easements When You Are Buying Land
Legal Documentation: Hillsboro Airport Zoning Challenge - LUBA Decision
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