Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport Wins On Appeal; Court Says Local Governments Do Not Have Authority To Impose Noise Restrictions The Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) won the case on appeal against the town of Superior and Boulder County related to their noise lawsuit.The appellate court’s ruling relied on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in City of Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal Inc., which held that federal law “generally preempts local police-power regulation of aircraft noise,” the release says. The city and county had sued the airport “for causing a public nuisance, seeking to enjoin touch-and-go operations by piston-engine aircraft at the airport.”
