Aviation Board Awards $6.51 Million to 21 Airports in Virginia

A total of 31 projects at 21 public-use airports in the Commonwealth received funding at last week’s quarterly meeting of the Virginia Aviation Board.  The VAB allocated $6,514,118.21 for these important enhancements to General Aviation airports across the state.

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Airport  Project Name  Amount
Blue Ridge Regional
Airport 
Route 698 Relocation & Apron Expansion
(Construction) –
Increase 
$108,208.17 
Blue Ridge Regional
Airport 
Box Hangar Site
Preparation
(Design/Construction) 
$667,772.00 
Blue Ridge Regional
Airport 
Runway Extension –
Phase 3 (Design) 
$22,222.00 
Blue Ridge Regional
Airport 
Runway Extension
(Road Relocation) –
Phase 1 (Construction) (Non-AIP) 
$1,200,000.00 
Bridgewater Air Park  Runway Lighting
Rehabilitation
(Construction) 
$424,000.00 
Brookneal Campbell
County Airport 
T-Hangar Site
Preparation
(Environmental
Coordination) 
$20,800.00 
Chesapeake Regional
Airport 
Runway, Taxiway, and Apron Crack Seal &
Re-Marking
(Construction) 
$270,465.00 
Chesapeake Regional
Airport 
Replacement Terminal Building Furniture  $16,868.00 
Dinwiddie County
Airport 
Pavement Crack Seal / Seal Coat /
Environmental
Coordination
(Design/Construction) 
$13,600.00 
Front Royal-Warren
County Airport 
Environmental Coordination – Obstruction
Removal & Hangar
Site Preparation 
$24,000.00 
Hampton Roads
Executive Airport 
West Apron Hangar
Site Preparation
(Construction) –
Increase 
$25,896.00 
Ingalls Field  Terminal Building
Conceptual
Study & Preliminary
Engineering (Design) 
$68,800.00 
Ingalls Field  Master Plan Update  $25,760.00 
Ingalls Field  Pavement Crack Seal / Re-marking /Environmental Coordination
(Construction) 
$18,800.00 
Lake Country
Regional Airport 
East and West Side
Runway Obstruction
Survey and Removal (Construction) –
Increase 
$4,400.00 
Leesburg Executive
Airport 
Hangars A, B, C & D
Taxilane
Rehabilitation
(Construction) 
$1,640,000.00 
Leesburg Executive
Airport 
South Terminal Apron
Rehabilitation
(Construction) 
$471,200.00 
Louisa County
Airport 
Flex-Wing Mower  $10,899.00 
Louisa County
Airport 
2022 John Deere
5115M Tractor 
$35,796.00 
Lunenburg County
Airport 
Apron Rehabilitation
(Construction) 
$205,925.00 
Lunenburg County
Airport 
Runway 2-20
Rehabilitation
(Construction) 
$719,935.00 
New Kent County
Airport 
Airport Entrance
Signage
(Construction) 
$492.00 
New River Valley
Airport 
Partial Parallel
Taxiway
(Environmental
Coordination) 
$10,208.00 
Orange County
Airport 
Electrical Vault
Fencing
(Construction) 
$3,547.00 
Richmond Executive –
Chesterfield County
Airport 
Zero-Turn Mowers (2)  $38,880.04 
Stafford Regional
Airport 
Runway 15 Extension
(Construction
Overrun) (AIP) –
Increase 
$26,633.00 
Stafford Regional
Airport 
Runway 15 Extension
(Construction
Overrun) (Non-AIP) 
$77,652.00 
Tappahannock-Essex
County Airport 
Parallel Taxiway
Extension
(Construction) 
$240,000.00 
Twin County Airport  Runway Rehabilitation & Taxiway Relocation (Environmental &
Design) 
$24,000.00 
Virginia Tech –
Montgomery Executive Airport 
Purchase Automated
External
Defibrillator (AED) 
$1,360.00 
Wakefield Municipal
Airport 
Airfield Pavement
Crack Seal, Seal Coat & Marking
(Construction) 
$96,000.00 
Total  $6,514,118.21

Kim Stevens

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.