Billings Logan International Airport will receive almost $1.9 million for infrastructure improvements as part of the Federal Aviation Administration's [FAA] Airport Improvement Program [AIP].
Of the almost $2 million, $1, 500,000 will go to improve airport drainage the airport has been pursing, and the remaining $400,000 will be used to extend a taxiway so a hanger development can continue on the east end of the airport.
The AIP provides grants to public agencies for the planning and development of public-use airports, according to faa.gov.
Nine other Montana airports will be receiving grants totaling about $2.7 million, according to a news release, including:
- Tillitt Field Airport: $1,728,919 to construct an access road and taxiway and to rehabilitate the airport’s apron and taxiway.
- Circle Town County Airport: $237,563 to construct a 3,600 square foot hangar building.
- Ronan Airport: $202,642 to update the existing airport master plan study to show current and future needs of the airport.
- Shelby Airport: $150,845 to install and replace runway lighting to enhance safe airfield operations during low visibility conditions, and to rehabilitate apron, runway and taxiway.
- Big Horn County Airport: $123,427 to fund construction of a single pump fuel facility.
- Broadus Airport: $112,204 to rehabilitate the airport’s apron, runway and taxiway.
- Malta Airport: $81,752 to install weather reporting equipment.
- L.M. Clayton Airport: $80,752 to install a runway vertical visual guidance system to improve safety and visibility for aircraft and design a 6,400 square foot hangar building.
- Mission Field Airport: $43,572 to rehabilitate the airport’s apron, runways and taxiways.
“Community airports across Montana provide critical transportation services to Montana’s rural communities,” Daines said in a news release. “These grants will ensure that Montana’s smaller airports are able to meet rising ridership demands, ensure safe and reliable service for their passengers and meet the long-term economic needs of the communities they serve.”
