Cordova’s Merle K “Mudhole” Smith airport has received a $648,645 Federal Aviation Administration grant to funds its airport master plan study.
The grant was among over $102 million announced in late April in airport grants for airports in 10 Alaska communities to meet needs ranging from reconstruction or rehabilitation of runways and taxiways to acquisition of snow removal equipment and construction of airport buildings.
Other grants to Alaska airports include:
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, $50,160,780, to rehabilitate the access road, acquire snow removal equipment, reconstruction the taxiway and taxiway lighting, rehabilitate the taxiway and taxilane;
- Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport, Utqiagvik, $13,968,851, to construct an aircraft rescue and firefighting building, sand and chemical storage building and snow removal equipment building;
- Crooked Creek, $12,544,569, for an access road, apron and reconstruction of the runway;
- Nome, $10,666,667 for runway rehabilitation;
- Bethel airport, $7,838,719 to strengthen the runway;
- Kasigluk Airport, $4,085,000 to expand its snow removal equipment building, install NAVAIDS, reconstruction runway lighting, reconstruct taxiway lighting, and rehabilitate the access road, apron and taxiway;
- Fairbanks International Airport, $1,400,000 to acquire snow removal equipment;
- Juneau Airport, $533,333 to update its state/regional system plan;
- Warren “Bud” Woods Palmer Municipal Airport, to conduct a miscellaneous study, $266,667.
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