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More than $135K granted to SE Iowa Regional Airport

Congressman Dave Loebsack announced Friday that the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport in Burlington will receive an $135,267 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant program. This funding will be used for design review and construction inspection of the runway reconstruction project.
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$4.7 million federal grant to Appleton International Airport ‘paves the way’ for economic development

The Appleton International Airport will get a federal grant of $4.7 million to pay for improvements, including 26,000 square yards of new taxiway, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher announced Thursday. The airport will receive $2.3 million from the federal Airport Improvement Program, along with another $2.4 million in discretionary funding. The grants will be awarded by
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Wyoming airport unveils modernization plans

Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport held an open house on September 19 and shared plans for a commercial terminal modernization project that will see the facility undergo wholesale changes over the next four years. The facility’s new capital plan includes a new fuel farm that should be completed by mid-summer 2020 and a snow removal equipment
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Quincy Regional Airport Gets $1-million in FAA Funding

Quincy Regional Airport will benefit from federal funding announced Friday. Illinois Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth announced that Quincy Regional Airport will get a little over a million dollars in Airport Improvement Program money from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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$12.1M grant announced for Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport

The Louisville Regional Airport Authority was awarded a $12.1 million competitive federal grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for taxiway and additional improvements at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The Airport Authority plans to use the federal funds for a multiphase infrastructure improvement project, including rehabilitating multiple taxiways and lighting systems. Upgrades made across
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Renovations completed at Maine municipal airport

Rangeley has finished a renovation of the Stephen A. Bean Municipal Airport that has expanded the runway to four hundred thirty feet. Saturday, they celebrated two years of hard work by many organizers and individuals. With an $11.5 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, it was made possible.
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Houston doesn’t need another airport tax

Houston small business owner Dave Massey weighed in against a plan being pushed by airport executives to increase the PFC, an add-on tax airports charge consumers. “If the airport authorities get their way, that small tax can be virtually anything the individual airports want it to be… meaning they can tax whatever they want,” writes
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