b'42 PVG GENERAL AVIATION New hangars and a 5,350-foot runway with instrument landing system are helping attract tenants. Two Cities, One RunwayEXPERIENCED | TIME-TESTED Most of PVGs property is in Chesapeake, VA, but 80 acresincluding 100 feet of the new runwayis in Suffolk, VA.Knowing the project team would need permits from Suffolk to build the runway, Fox rallied grassroots support. About 50 of our users got on a bus to go to a city council meeting to vouch for this runway, he relates.Having to submit separate proposals to each city board to FULLY INTEGRATED HANGAR & DOOR SYSTEMS secure approvals for site planning and zoning complicated matters for Talbert & Bright. Peterson notes that the dual track took extra time and effort but ultimately succeeded.Were SwampedPortsmouth Airport, the precursor to Hampton Roads Airport, was built on marshy land in the 1940s and had three grass strips for Aeroncas, Piper Cubs and other small aircraft of the day. Given the wet airfield conditions, building a longer paved runway for larger aircraft was an entirely different matter.HANGAR The Talbert & Bright team encountered significant substrate &DOOR challenges when repurposing the old 4,000-foot runway into a 1957 2023 parallel taxiway for the new runway. We had weight of hammer EXPERTS material, recalls Peterson, meaning there was no resistance from soil compaction when geotechnical engineers dropped a 140-pound hammer into a drilled hole. Typically, engineers START TO FINISH EXPERTISE measure how deep the hammer penetrates to determine soil Single-source for Design, Manufacturing, & On-Site Servicesstability. At PVG, it immediately sunk. The subgrade soils in the old runway were not sufficient, so a800.274.0144|FULFAB.COM reconstruction was needed, says Peterson. November | December 2024AirportImprovement.com'