In his final report to Yeager's governing board, Crawford said Yeager Airport Police recently seized three pounds of marijuana in an unclaimed piece of checked luggage that had arrived at the Charleston airport following a series of flights that originated in California.
Crawford will return to his former role as St. Albans police chief next week.
Also during Wednesday's board meeting, Charles Jones, chairman of the airport's construction committee, said that a land acquisition project involving willing sellers with property in the vicinity of Yeager's collapsed safety overrun area has been put on hold, pending completion of an archaeological survey needed to complete an environmental assessment for the project. Terry Sayre, Yeager's executive director, said an excavation beyond the scale that occurs during routine archaeological surveys is taking place on one of the properties being considered for the buyout and had not been completed by a recent application deadline for a Federal Aviation Administration grant program. The State Historic Preservation Office must review such surveys before earth-moving or construction work can begin.
Sayre said he did not know what period of history the partial excavation involved or when the excavation and survey results would be reviewed. "It's on hold until next year," he said.
In other airport developments, the Army's Golden Knights parachute team, an aerobatics performer and at least 35 aircraft have been signed so far to take part in a 70th Anniversary air show scheduled to take place Sept. 30-Oct. 1.
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