Council seeks renaming of airport for Sabo

Thursday, May 6, 1999 | 11:27 a.m.

The North Las Vegas City Council Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution in support of renaming the North Las Vegas Airport the Gus Sabo Airfield in honor of the 51-year-old airport manager who was killed when his experimental plane crashed March 7 while on a return trip from Mexico.

The resolution will be forwarded along with a request for the name change to Clark County, which owns and operates the facility.

Sabo joined the Clark County Department of Aviation in 1984 as an electrician and was promoted to electrician supervisor over McCarran International Airport. Sabo served as the general aviation manager of the North Las Vegas Airport, Perkins Field at Overton and the Searchlight Airport for the past three years.

Sabo was flying in formation with a friend from Las Vegas, dentist Jeff Glynn, when the two were separated by bad weather about 80 miles south of San Felipe in Baja California.

Sabo's body was never found.