Private Jet owners want 6,000 new flights about Lexington and Concord. History lovers say no way.

FIFE and drumming echoed on Tuesday as a concord minute, dressed in colonial robe, gathered to protect historic grounds near Hanscom Field Airport.

The Concord Minute Men joined dozens of others in the State House to deliver a petition from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to GOV. Maura Healey. The petition insists on stopping a proposed expansion of Hanscom Field Airport, with more than 50,000 square foot or two-thirds of a mile of private jethangarpace.

Proponents claim that the expansion would bring noise, pollution and traffic to historic grounds that have been removed from where the ‘shot’ around the world ‘was fired 250 years ago during the fighting of Lexington and Concord. They say that the expansion would only benefit the few private jet owners.

The jets would use the runway that leads planes over Minute Men Park, Walden Pond, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge and the historic houses.

Mark Thoreau, a family descendant of Henry David ThoreauRead a quote from his ancestor in the Staatshuis: “Thank goodness, men cannot fly yet and waste both the air and the earth … It is precisely for the reason that some people do not take care of these things that we should combine to protect everything against the vandalism of a few.”

Last May, the National Trust for Historic Preservation Minute MAN National Historic Park, Walden and nearby sights designated as one of America’s 11 most endangered historical places Due to the threat of the proposed private jet expansion on the Hanscom field.

Proponents say that the proposed development would lead to increased noise disturbance in an area that is already influenced by noise of jet traffic, often interrupted park programming.

Hanscom Field, located in Bedford, is the largest non -commercial airport in the region and the second busiest in New England, after Logan.

A Design of environment -Impact report (Deir) says that the proposed project of developers Runway Realty Ventures, LLC and North Airfield Ventures, LLC, the Clear-Cut and Plain of 20 hectares would become wooded land and build 17 hangars that would double the private-jet infrastructure of the airport.

Use private capital, North Airfield Ventures Says that the project creates an “aviation facility of the future” that promotes clean aircraft fuels, supports vehicles of electric flight services and uses solar panels and other sustainable technologies.

The developers say that Hanscom does not have enough hangar space to meet the question, resulting in empty aircraft flying in and out to pick up and dispose of passengers. The expansion, they say, would reduce the extra “ferry flights”.

However, the Deir report says that the infrastructure would add around 6,000 new private -Jet flights annually, which would contribute around 150,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

“Because the headwind that blows against environmental protection have suddenly gained strength, there is no time for complacency,” said Daniel Emerson, descendant of Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the Staatshuis. “As Ralph Waldo reminds us:” Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they are executed. ”

Last June, Rebecca Tepper, the secretary of the Executive Office or Energy and Environmental Affairs, the developers of the developers and said that the “not sufficient and correct” meets the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) and the regulations.

Tepper instructed the developers to return to the drawing board and produce an additional deir, which is still being treated.

The developers expect to submit the additional Deir report this summer and will implement community range in May.

Mepa does not have the authority to approve or refuse a proposal. Only Massport, who operates the airport, the federal government through the FAA, or the developers can end the project at any time. Only one authority is needed to stop the project.

“We have a real shot,” said Senator Mike Barrett in the State House. “We have a real chance to stop this, and today we are going to appeal to the Governor of Massachusetts to use all the powers of her office, her considerable moral authority, her political leverage, to persuade Massport to do the right one.”

A representative for Massport refused to comment and noted that although the authority owns the country, it is not involved in the planning for the project.

The opposition against the expansion has received widespread support. The petition that was submitted to the Governor has collected more than 4,000 signatures on Tuesday and a separate petition by the Stop Private Jet Expansion group collected Another 14,000 signatures.

Betsy Merritt, the deputy general counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, says there is strong public support for stopping the project. If the State approves the expansion, it can be confronted with a wave of lawsuits that disputes the decision.

“I am sure they are aware of that and be aware of it and will make the right decision,” she said.

Beth Treffeisen is a general assignment reporter for Boston.com, aimed at local news, crime and companies in the New England region.