Three Pennsylvania airports get grant from state

Pittsburgh International Airport, Allegheny County Airport and Butler County Airport are the recipients of grants totaling $828,000. Pittsburgh International in Findlay will receive $750,000 to complete pavement, joint and crack sealing on its north runway and multiple taxiways. Set to begin in the Spring, the project is designed to prolong the life of the runway and taxiways. The county’s airport authority will provide $250,000.

The Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin, will collect a $75,000 grant to be used to fund the first phase design of a project to rehabilitate power and lighting systems in the main terminal and in the public parking lot and a parking lot building. The airport authority will chip in $25,000.

Butler County Airport in Penn will receive $3,000 to develop a municipal hazard zoning ordinance.

The awards are part of $4 million in grants announced last week under the state Department of Transportation’s aviation development program, funded through a jet fuel tax.

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Kim Stevens is the publisher of State Aviation Journal, which he founded in 2009. A longtime commercial-rated pilot, he was introduced to state aviation in 1992 as Director of the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics, later serving as Deputy Division Director for the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division. From 2013 to 2018, he was Director of Communications and Operations for the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in Washington, D.C. Relocating to North Carolina, Kim worked for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport for two years and now concentrates solely on the Journal. Prior to his aviation career, Kim spent a decade in the newspaper and magazine business.