CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Centennial Airport has no control over development near the 50-year-old airfield. "The airport opened in 1968," said Centennial Airport's Planning Director Mike Fronapfel ...

Centennial Airport expressed concerns that the development would be impacted by noise from airport activities and overflights. This site was zoned for residential use more than 20 years ago.

Traveling 2.2 times faster than the speed of sound, Boom's supersonic aircraft is a step closer to getting assembled at Centennial Airport, where the first subsonic test flights will occur in 2018.

Ben Krall works on displays showing artists renderings of the interior of the XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator jet at Boom Technology at Centennial Airport on Nov. 14, 2016 in Centennial.

At a minimum the company wants to begin building 60 Sun Flyers at Centennial Airport. The flight time using the solar panels is three hours. Howard Nathan is a veteran newsman.