The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission will meet Thursday in Oklahoma City and among its business items is an amendment to the Three-Year Capital Improvement Program to identify completion of all construction on the Stillwater Regional Airport runway.
The Commission’s goal is to complete Phase One construction by late August. Plans call to re-align the diagonal section of of one of the runways. Total project cost is estimated at $600,000 with funding to include $185,000 in federal grant money, $385,000 in state grant funds and $30,000 local matching funds.
An update will also be given on the Oklahoma Statewide Economic Impact Study for the state’s 100 publicly-owned airports and four military aviation facilities.
There will also be a briefing up any recent national and Oklahoma news regarding unmanned aerial systems. Another briefing will be given on the agency’s letter opposing an FAA proposal to decommission the lighting system at the Ardmore Municipal Airport.
Two state grants will be considered for improvements at the Anadarko and West Woodward Municipal Airports. The Anadarko airport project has an estimated cost of $300,000 to upgrade runway lights, lighted wind cone and beacome. It will be funded with $285,000 of state grant funds.
The project in Woodward carries an estimated cost of $500,000 to rehabilitate one runway and the taxiway system of another. State grants will total $475,000.
