Local News in Brief : Burbank Airport Sets 1987 as Deadline for Quieter Jets

Burbank Airport Commissioners voted Monday to ban noisy jetliners from using the field at the airport as of April, 1987, almost two years earlier than required by the airport’s previous

noise abatement rules.

The unanimous decision to adopt new noise rules represented a compromise between the airlines and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority. The agency in December considered forcing

air carriers to convert their fleets to federally certified Stage 3 aircraft, the quietest commercial jetliners available, by January, 1986.

The authority’s previous noise rules, adopted in 1982, required the airlines to stop using the noisier jets by January, 1989.