Wicomico County Executive Richard M. Pollitt, Jr. and the Wicomico Airport Commission have announced that the Runway 32 Extension is now available for use at the Salisbury-Ocean City-Wicomico Regional Airport. The new runway length is
6,400 feet. It had been 5,500 feet. The added footage permits take-offs and landings of regional jet aircraft.
The total cost of the extension project was $4.985 Million with 95% of the funding from the Federal Aeronautical Administration’s (FAA) Airport Improvement Plan. 2.5% of the funding came from the Maryland Aviation Administration and the remainder came from passenger facility charges. Neither county general funds nor county bonds were needed to finance the extension.
A second grant application has been submitted to the F.A.A. for funding the construction of a parallel taxiway to Runway 32.
I bet all the residents of Kilburnie are happy as clams, aren't they? NOT
ReplyDeleteFk them, don't buy a house next to an airport if you don't want to live next to an airport!
ReplyDeleteIt's refreshing to see a county department that knows how to get things done without putting the county in debt.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope this brings some competition to SBY. I've had it with U.S.Air, and I'll drive to BWI or use the Bay Runner Shuttle before I fly with them again. Not enough space here to tell all my nightmare U.S.Air stories, not to mention the ridiculous overpricing of their flights in and out of SBY.
ReplyDeleteBuy next to an Airport. It is cheaper and besides you can just force the Airport to move as has happened all over the country. Then you sell for a huge profit.
ReplyDeleteThe Airport is actually one of the best managed areas of the County.
ReplyDelete"9:06" Your mentality is showing! I have lived in this area since 1986. Starting out renting then was able to buy 9 years ago. I knew from the start there was an airport. I have seen crop duster type planes fly so low I could see the numbers on the plane. I am glad the airport is growing. I just would not like to see the numbers on a jet. So maybe the "FK them" is on you. NOW "1:35" How can you say cheap? You have no idea what it cost me and how long I worked just to be able to say I have a place that is mine. How much did your pay for your house? Maybe it was less then mine. WHAT AIRPORT WAS FORCED TO MOVE? map
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ReplyDeleteWhere the heck do you think the matching funds came from? Are you one of those Detroiters who think it comes from "Obama's stash"?
You will never see RJ's at SBY. That's a pipe dream like the need for a control tower. That was simply a ploy to get those Federal dollars to pi$$ away on a podunk airport. And how much of that money was siphoned off to some bureaucrat's hip pocket?
Before long SBY will become an EAS airport if jobs continue to dwindle, and who will want to move new industry into a locale with such a high crime rate?
If the citizen's of MD's Eastern Shore don't get their act together, at some point the whole house of cards is going to collapse (avian flu?) and it will become a ghost town with a bunch of riff raff preying on the older people left to live out their lives there. Anyone with anything on the ball will have left. Shades of the Old West.