Aircraft flight operations are regulated by the FAA, not Shasta County. The County manages aircraft noise indirectly by guiding compatible land uses around airports such as Redding Municipal and Benton Airfield through its General Plan, and cannot set limits on aircraft in flight.
The County of Shasta (California) cannot directly regulate aircraft noise, because aircraft operations, flight paths, and aviation noise standards are comprehensively regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration under federal law; the Supremacy Clause preempts local governments from independently regulating aircraft in flight. Instead, the County addresses aircraft noise through land-use compatibility. The General Plan Noise Element (Section 5.11) identifies aircraft and airport operations as a transportation noise source and uses the land-use compatibility guidelines (Table 5.11-7) to steer noise-sensitive uses such as homes and schools away from areas exposed to significant airport noise. Around airports in the region - including Redding Municipal Airport and Benton Airfield - airport land use compatibility planning, administered through the airport land use commission process, limits incompatible development in higher-noise contours. In practice, when new noise-sensitive development is proposed near an airport, the County reviews it for compatibility and may require sound-attenuation measures or avigation easements rather than placing restrictions on individual aircraft. A local airport proprietor seeking to impose access or noise restrictions on aircraft must go through the federal FAR Part 161 process, underscoring that flight-noise control remains a federal matter.
The County enforces aircraft-noise compatibility through its land-use and permitting decisions, such as conditioning or denying noise-sensitive development in high-noise airport zones. Aircraft operations and pilots themselves are regulated and enforced by the FAA, not by county code.
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