This year, three autonomous mowers are supplementing Sugar Land Regional Airport (SGR)'s maintenance crews, with each able to mow more than 1.4 acres per hour.
A high-tech driving simulator is the Omaha Eppley Airfield (OMA)’s go-to tool, and both management and trainees are thrilled with the $125,000 investment.
Centennial Airport (APA) just outside Denver added a new strategy to its existing foreign object debris (FOD) program that is getting great reviews from the maintenance staff.
Turning a wrench has gone digital for airfield crews at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), at least when it comes to maintaining the lights along runways, taxiways and other critical pavement. For the past three years, they have been using a computerized bolt-torquing system that saves time and money while also making the airfield safer.
Between thunderstorms and blazing heat, there are plenty of obstacles that can complicate airfield maintenance in Florida. One thing that's not a hurdle' Finding a reliable, cost-efficient team for airfield marking projects.
Pilots, baggage handlers and ground crews at Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL) are seeing things in a different light these days, courtesy of a $1.7 million upgrade of lighting fixtures around the terminal apron.
Flying in the face of economic trends that stymied years of efforts to boost local air connectivity, Lincoln Airport (LNK) in southeast Nebraska recently tapped an unexpected pool of federal dollars to jumpstart new air service. Now the local community has nonstop flights to seven popular U.S. leisure markets. And seats are filling up.
Myrtle Beach International Airport (MYR) got three wins from one project when it completed a $60 million taxiway reconstruction in 2021. Taxiway A, which ran parallel to MYR's sole runway and served its commercial terminal, was one of the few remaining vestiges of a former military base.
While many airfield safety programs focus on runways, Tampa International (TPA) recently finished a $78,500 project that honed in on its apron area. The Florida airport established a well-defined route specifically designed to decrease the speed of ground service vehicles and help keep them a safe distance from parked and taxiing aircraft.
When corporate customers expressed a desire to operate larger, longer-range jets at Huntingburg Regional (HNB) Airport, Manager Travis McQueen found a way to provide the extra runway length they would need.
The maintenance team at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) is well-known for its expertise in snow removal. But after the snow stops flying, crews quickly turn their attention to a myriad of other duties. Much of the off-season work centers on landscape management to help deter wildlife on the airport's 2,930-acre campus.
The airfield at Spirit of St. Louis (SUS) Airport is safer and brighter following a $1.34 million project that overhauled its main runway with freshly renovated concrete and upgraded lighting. Since Runway 8R-26L was already scheduled for pavement rehabilitation, SUS management figured it was an opportune time to upgrade the runway's lighting, too.
