{"id":26718,"date":"2023-09-25T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=26718"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:08:19","slug":"colorado-surplus-airport-equipment-program-soars-to-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/colorado\/colorado-surplus-airport-equipment-program-soars-to-new-heights\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Surplus Airport Equipment Program Soars to New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Photo above &#8211; A record number of airports attended this year&#8217;s Surplus Airport Equipment Sale. In total, 29 airports purchased 53 pieces of equipment. The Colorado Division of Aeronautics funded nearly 75% of just over $1 million in sales.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2023 Surplus Airport Equipment Sale went into the record\nbooks as the largest and most attended sale in the program&#8217;s history. Taking\nplace on August 31st, a record number of 29 Colorado public-use airport\nmanagers and sponsors took advantage of the sale coordinated through a\nlong-standing partnership with Denver International Airport (DEN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, 53 pieces of well-maintained airport equipment\nwere sold to 29 airports generating just over $1 million in revenue. Through\nfunding allocated by the Colorado Aeronautical Board (CAB), the Division funded\n$747,600 of this total, minimizing purchase costs to local airport\nsponsors.&nbsp; It&#8217;s estimated that had all of\nthis equipment been purchased new, the total cost would have been well over $10\nmillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Led by the Division&#8217;s Kaitlyn Westendorf, the Colorado\nSurplus Airport Equipment Program continues to be the Division&#8217;s largest and\nlongest-standing statewide initiative. For over 20 years, this program has\nhelped numerous airports affordably attain critical airport-specific equipment\nthat significantly helps enhance the safety and efficiency of Colorado&#8217;s\nAirport System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo above &#8211; A record number of airports attended this year&#8217;s Surplus Airport Equipment Sale. In total, 29 airports purchased 53 pieces of equipment. The Colorado Division of Aeronautics funded nearly 75% of just over $1 million in sales. The 2023 Surplus Airport Equipment Sale went into the record books as the largest and most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Equipment-sale-2023-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26721,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718\/revisions\/26721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}