Alpena County Regional Airport (APN) collaborated with the Michigan Air National Guard on a $58 million runway reconstruction project, blending civilian and military needs.
The recent runway reconstruction at Rosecrans Memorial Airport (STJ) in St. Joseph, MO, provides drastic improvements in safety and operational capability for the shared-use airport.
The $7.6 million project removed older, various-angled taxiways and replaced them with new taxiways that meet the airport’s runways at right angles and adhere to current FAA design standards.
This June, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) completed a $75 million taxiway reconstruction project, removing two heavily used taxiways and replacing them with two separate, non-intersecting taxiways.
A new taxiway completed late this summer at Pryor Field Regional Airport (DCU) marks the first step in an aggressive expansion program to help the northern Alabama airport keep pace with dramatic regional economic growth.
Regina International Airport (YQR) invested $2.2 million in new runway edge lighting and an upgraded approach lighting system as part of a major $26 million airfield rehabilitation project.
They say everything’s bigger in Texas. And although bigger isn’t always better, it’s definitely a good thing at Valley International Airport (HRL) in Harlingen, TX. The airport’s recently extended 17R-35L runway is now the biggest—longest—runway in South Texas.
A new $7 million ground run-up enclosure is boosting safety and operating efficiency at Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport (OSC), a general aviation airport in northeastern Michigan, along the Lake Huron shoreline.
File it under “good things come to those who wait.” The roughly year-long reconstruction and rehabilitation of the primary runway at Punta Gorda Airport (PGD) was a welcome improvement that took patience, planning and lots of enabling projects.
Staff members at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in British Columbia refer to the experience almost cryptically as 'the Four Days in December.' And it's as ominous as it sounds. A mix of snow, freezing rain, low temperatures and fog arrived in waves over four crucial holiday travel days in December 2022.
The history of airfield pavement is filled with products and technologies originally developed for the road and highway industry. The latest chapter in that story is an asphalt surface treatment that has been successfully applied in more than 20 significant airport projects since 2019, including three general aviation runways completed late last year in Colorado, Minnesota and North Dakota.
