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About 35 miles northeast of Sacramento lies the city of Cameron Park, Calif., home to Northern California TRACON (NCT). NCT is the home of 191 current NATCA members, putting the facility at 92 percent membership. This […]

Located in Broward County, Fla., along the Atlantic coast just north of Fort Lauderdale, is Pompano Beach. This city is home to Pompano Beach Federal Contract Tower (PMP), a 100 percent NATCA facility. Five controllers work […]

Halfway between Fresno, Calif. and Los Angeles, you will find the city of Bakersfield and in it, Meadows Field ATCT/TRACON (BFL). There are 24 controllers at this facility, located in “B-Town,” which recently reached 100 percent […]

Santa Fe Municipal Tower (SAF) FacRep Shawn Forsberg works with a small but close-knit group of air traffic controllers. All six controllers at SAF are NATCA members, and that, Forsberg says, makes for a good atmosphere. […]

The Region X (NRX) Engineers Southwest (ESW) NATCA local has 125 NATCA members out of 465 employees. NATCA ESW Facility Representative Jeff Tyler said that the last 24 members have joined after the furlough crisis in […]

There are 28 NATCA members at Fort Smith Tower/Razorback Approach (FSM), putting the facility’s NATCA membership at 98 percent. FSM is open from 5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. CDT. The facility is currently a level eight, […]