After several months of challenging underground boring through the rocky substrate under Holley Mountain Airpark, we now have active high-speed fiber internet.  The service is provided by Petit Jean Fiber, the sister company to our primary electric service provider (Petit Jean Electric).  Since the fiber network is closely following our existing electrical grid layout, any lot with access to electrical service should have easy access to have fiber installed at their address.  Available speeds are 100 Mbps, 200 Mbps, and 1 Gig, and phone service is also available using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).  The internet service and network reliability have been outstanding.  Please see the Petit Jean Fiber website (www.petitjeanfiber.com) for details on plans and pricing!

Here are some Arkansas Fall color tour suggestions from Arkansas Living Magazine.

Great progress is being made on the building that will house our fire department substation and our Holley Mountain Airpark Community Room!  The walls are going up and the final concrete is being poured.

Two of our residents, Milt Bland and Ken Blair, replaced the taxiway light bulbs with LED bulbs going from 69 watts to 6.8 watts per bulb.  This is saving us about $30.00/month on electric costs as well as giving us a lifetime supply of FAA approved runway lights!  We are working on updating our overall lighting to improve the lighting and reliability while reducing costs.

Holley Mountain Airpark now has a “Say Weather” weather advisory system.  It is activated by 6 mic clicks on our CTAF 122.7. It gives us the temperature, dew point, density altitude and wind speed as well as gusts and direction.  On a final approach just wind can be obtained with 4 clicks.   The sensors are located just across the runway from the pond.  You can access our information by going to Weather Underground, location is Clinton, AR and then it usually comes up with a downtown system, click change and “KARCLINT11” should appear which is us, and updates about every 10 seconds.