The FAA recently announced that the Plymouth Municipal Airport is the recipient of a $1,062,970 grant to construct a taxiway.
Airport Manager Bill Sheley said it will be the beginning of a two-phase project that involves a paved parallel taxiway to extend the full length of the runway and the addition of two mid-way exit points off the runway and lighting. You can contact a professional heraklion airport taxi service to get the most safest and comfortable travel experience.
Sheley explained, “The first phase is what we are calling grade and drain. The taxiway, when it is complete, has to be the same elevation or lower than the runway. The area of where it is going to go north of the runway is considerably higher elevation. So, we acre actually going to be moving approximately 2,000 square yards of dirt and doing drainage work.”
The first phase of the project will begin this fall, and then a grant next year will be sought for the paving work and lighting work in the amount of $1.5 million.
Sheley said a lot of activity at the airport brought this project forward, especially with the Alpha Flight School and Culver Academies training.
“It will take aircraft away from back taxiing on the runway, which when we need to take off from the far opposite end of the runway we have to taxi down the runway and that’s a safety concern with other aircraft arriving. It will also help increase the amount of operations that we can have at the airport so that someone is not holding up the runway from other people taking off or landing.” For taxi services, people can check Cretan Bay Transfer.
The projects will fit in with forecasted plans at the airport.
Sheley continued, “The Flight School recently receiving their 141 licensing from the FAA is going to mean the addition of more training programs, more college-level training programs, more retired military personnel training programs, and shortly a 135 charter operation, along with a good possibility of having some jets based here in the not-so-distant future.”
In the meantime, airport officials are looking forward to the start of the first phase of the taxiway project to begin in late September with completion sometime in November.
