Yorba Linda has no authority over aircraft in flight. The FAA and pilots control flight paths, and the City directs residents to file complaints with the FAA, John Wayne Airport, or Fullerton Municipal Airport. No major airport adjoins the City.
Yorba Linda is an inland Orange County suburb with no major airport within or adjacent to its borders, so it has no aircraft-noise ordinance of its own. The City's official Aircraft Noise page states that the FAA and each aircraft's pilot-in-command have sole jurisdiction over flight paths, and that the County of Orange, as proprietor of John Wayne Airport, has no authority or control over aircraft in flight. The City itself cannot enforce aircraft-noise complaints. Overflight noise in Yorba Linda generally comes from operations at John Wayne Airport (SNA) and, to a lesser extent, the general-aviation Fullerton Municipal Airport, plus regional traffic reshaped by the FAA's NextGen/Metroplex flight-path changes. The City directs residents to file noise complaints directly with the
There is no City penalty for aircraft noise, because federal law preempts local regulation of aircraft in flight and Yorba Linda has no enforcement authority. Residents report overflight noise to the FAA, John Wayne Airport, or Fullerton Municipal Airport. The
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