Skydivers miss airport, land at high-security submarine base

ST. MARYS – Skydivers will no longer be able to drop from the sky out of an airport less than three miles from the highly restricted Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base.

The St. Marys Airport Authority voted Wednesday night to revoke The Jumping Place’s permit to operate out of the small airport. The decision came after two jumpers landed on the base Aug. 12. Altogether, seven skydivers have landed on the base in the past three years.



The vote came after a lengthy and sometimes heated discussion between authority members and the owners of The Jumping Place. Airport Authority member Frank Frasca motioned to revoke the permit shortly after Navy Cmdr. Jeff Pafford told the authority, “This cannot happen again.”

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