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Atmore Gets $200,000 Airport Grant
May 23, 2009
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded over $200,000 to the City of Atmore to expand and improve the city’s airport.
The FAA will award Atmore $210,383 to acquire land for approaches and construct an access road at the Atmore Municipal Airport. The grant was part of $2,416,438 in total funding announced for six regional airports in Alabama for infrastructure improvements.
The grants were announced Friday by U.S. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama. Shelby serves as a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
“Investing in the infrastructure of Alabama’s regional airports will not only provide the safest and most efficient transportation services for Alabamians, but also ensure that the area remains desirable for residents and businesses,” said Shelby. “This grant will provide funding to help Alabama’s regional airports make improvements that are necessary to accommodate those traveling to, from, and through our great state.”
Other airports receiving grants were Albertville Regional-Thomas J. Brumlik Field, Dothan Regional Airport, Mobile Regional Airport, Northeast Alabama Regional Airport, Roanoke Municipal Airport and Vaiden Field Airport.
The largest grant was $724,596 to the Dothan Regional Airport to improve its runway safety area, install airfield guidance signs, and rehabilitate its taxiway.
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3 Responses to “Atmore Gets $200,000 Airport Grant”
I live four hundred yards from the end of the runway. There is daily traffic using the Atmore Municipal Airport with training pilots from abroad to the Military
pilots and personel from all over the U.S. . Just today there was a twin engine Beechcrart landed in the A.M. with passengers departing to Atmore for business then departing the airport later in the afternoon.
Don’t know what airport concerned lives near, not Atmore.
I live close by the airport, days come and go and no activity is noticed at the airport , talk about pork barrel politics,this is a prime example. If Atmore wants to do something constructive some street paving would be nice as we have been named the pothole capital of Alabama. Deplorable conditions with the traffic getting through town is even worse. Sorry ,just had to comment small town politics just sucks.
Is anyone aware our fair mayor commited purgery at the court hearing ? Saying under oath that the airport had no plans to expand? This must be why the land owners were robbed of there property.