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Grant nets Juneau airport over $25M for maintenance, repairs

Juneau International Airport on Friday received the last $6.4 million of a total $25.4 million federal grant for taxiway maintenance and for an emergency generator to supplement the airport’s emergency lighting system. “It impacts everybody, including our helicopter operators,” JIA manager Patty Wahto said. The grant is part of the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program, which
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Michigan airports getting $39.6M in infrastructure grants

The Federal Aviation Administration says Michigan airports are getting $39.6 million in airport improvement grants. The grants include $12.4 million to Detroit Metropolitan Airport for taxiway reconstruction; more than $403,000 to Willow Run Airport for snow removal equipment; and more than $862,000 to Delta County Airport for taxiway rehabilitation, lighting, an emergency generator, and a
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Ohio airport secures $5 million grant for new taxiway

Planes flying into the Wayne County Airport next year should expect a much smoother ride after they land. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the county airport more than $5 million in grant funding under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program…The grant money will go toward designing and constructing a full-length parallel taxiway
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Maine airport receives $7M to improve infrastructure and winter runway

The Presque Isle International Airport will receive more than $7 million between two separate grants this year to improve infrastructure and the runway in winter through the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program. In recent years, the airport has received substantial funding from the FAA to help improve operations.
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FAA will provide $2.8 million for runway extension at Auburn Municipal Airport

The Auburn Municipal Airport is about to receive $2,858,343 from the Federal Aviation Administration for its long-in-the-planning runway extension project. The total award is composed of a $2.7 million grant from the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program for which the city applied Aug. 6, plus $150,000 from AIP’s mandatory funding commitments, which the airport receives every
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Minnesota airport gets grant offer for airport improvements

The Federal Aviation Administration is awarding $986 million to airports across the United States to go toward airport infrastructure and the Mankato Regional Airport is one of them. The grant offer of more than $330,000 for design services includes improvements to taxiways, maintaining pavement and holding bays, which are built for smaller airplanes to pull
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Virginia Highlands Airport receives $4.1 million grant for runway project

Virginia Highlands Airport in Abingdon is well on its way to extending a runway thanks to another multimillion-dollar federal grant. The airport will receive an additional $4.15 million for the extension of runway six. Other Virginia airports receiving funds include Washington Dulles International, Richmond International and Shenandoah Valley Regional.
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