The owners of Solberg-Hunterdon Airport have sued the Township of Readington, alleging that a recently-adopted zoning ordinance would block efforts to modernize and “ultimately destroy the airport as a viable operation.”

In a lawsuit filed in Hunterdon County Superior Court, the Solberg Aviation Company claims the Air Safety Zone that Readington created around the 744-acre airport tract will “suffocate” plans to expand the rural airfield.

Readington’s zoning ordinance “seeks not only to prevent improvement of the airport, but to suffocate Solberg Airport such that it likely will not be able to operate sustainably,” the lawsuit says.

Solberg Airport was started by Thor Solberg in 1941 and remains a family-run business. It is in the process of updating its Master Plan for the first time s

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