HANOVER TWP., Pa.- The Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority (LNAA) Board of Governors is under new leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During its regular meeting on Tuesday, the board elected its new officers.<\/p>\n
Michael Stershic is now board chair. He takes over for Glenn Reibman. Stershic previously served as vice chair.<\/p>\n
Frank Facchiano is stepping into the vice chair role. He last served as secretary \/ treasurer on the board.<\/p>\n
Finally, Paul Anthony Jr. is taking over the secretary \/ treasurer spot.<\/p>\n
The LNAA\u00a0operates and manages the Lehigh Valley’s airport system, which is made up of Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) in Hanover Township, Lehigh County; Allentown’s Queen City Airport; and Braden Airpark in Forks Township.<\/p>\n
The board consists of appointees from both Lehigh and\u00a0Northampton counties.<\/p>\n
Buying real estate near ABE<\/p>\n
Also on Tuesday, the board approved the acquisition of a private residence near ABE at 1565 E. Race Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LNAA has purchased several properties in the area in recent years; the home at 1565 is “one of the last two” on its list, said Darren Betters, LNAA’s director of business development.<\/p>\n
The properties are “important for us for future development,” Betters said, “not necessarily in the very near future, but down the road for sure.”<\/p>\n
The purchase price is $295,000, which is slightly under the home’s appraised value, Betters said. In return, LNAA is allowing the current owner to stay on the property rent-free for the next six years, during which he will have to maintain the home and pay its property taxes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
March traffic numbers<\/p>\n
Lehigh Valley International Airport’s March passenger data is out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
94,053 passengers used ABE last month, a decline of 1.26% from March 2025. Still, that marks the third best March on record for ABE.<\/p>\n
Also, more than 27.2 million pounds of air cargo was processed through Lehigh Valley International Airport last month, a decrease of 3.8% from March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HANOVER TWP., Pa.- The Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority (LNAA) Board of Governors is under new leadership.\u00a0 During its regular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,79945,79946,38197,2121,433,157,3767,4729],"class_list":["post-178995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-board-of-governors","tag-braden-airpark","tag-forks-township","tag-hanover-township","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-lehigh-valley-international-airport","tag-northampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}