May 17, 2011
FAA doles out $2.3M to airports
By The Mainebiz News Staff
CORRECTION: This article was corrected to include the funding for Knox County Regional Airport, which was previously omitted.
Nine Maine airports are receiving more than $2 million for safety improvements from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA is giving $2.3 million to airports across the state for safety improvements that will generate "positive, long-term economic benefits for the regions they serve," U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud said in a press release. The largest amounts will go to the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport and Knox County Regional Airport.
The funding breakdown:
- $650,000, Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport, to buy snow removal equipment and establish runway markings to meet current federal design standards
- $461,600, Knox County Regional Airport, to purchase snow removal equipment and repair runways
- $451,538, Bangor International Airport, to rehabilitate the apron
- $268,456, Caribou Municipal Airport, to remove on-airport obstructions in the runway approach surface
- $179,182, Machias Valley Airport, to update the existing master plan to help identify future airport needs
- $81,110, Lincoln Regional Airport in Lincoln, to fund the design phase of the rehabilitation of a runway
- $80,750, Dewitt Field, Old Town Municipal Airport, to rehabilitate the runway
- $67,386, Central Maine Airport in Norridgewock, to remove obstructions on runway approach surfaces and deter unauthorized persons and vehicles from entering the airfield
- $43,700, Sugarloaf Regional Airport in Carrabassett Valley, to rehabilitate the taxiway, runway and apron
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