WJTV-TV Jackson
Mississippi awarded with over $17M for airports projects
By Miracle Jennings
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – More than $17.3 million in federal funding was awarded to support improvement projects at nine Mississippi airports.
According to U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), the funding comes through the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program.
The 10 AIP grants approved for Mississippi include:
- Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport, Gulfport – $3,998,989 to extend Runway 36 and reconfigure Taxiway J connectors.
- Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport, Gulfport – $4,442,376 to acquire airfield pavement sweeper equipment, rehabilitate terminal apron and runway pavement, install a new airport rotating beacon, continue terminal apron pavement reconstruction, and replace the airfield lighting control and monitoring system.
- Bruce Campbell Field, Madison – $3,972,510 to continue runway rehabilitation.
- C.A. Moore Airport, Lexington – $1,550,000 to rehabilitate an existing runway.
- Key Field, Meridian – $1,289,688 to rehabilitate runway and taxiway pavement markings, reconstruct existing storm sewer infrastructure in runway safety area, and rehabilitate runway lighting.
- Ruleville-Drew Airport, Sunflower County – $972,175 to support construction of a new paved taxiway.
- Hardy-Anders Field, Natchez – $500,780 to support construction of a new 10,000-square-foot terminal to accommodate passengers.
- Clark County Airport, Quitman – $361,881 to reconstruct runway and taxiway lighting, and to install a precision approach path indicator.
- Dean Griffin Memorial Airport, Wiggins – $150,000 to support the acquisition of easement and property to protect the approach to Runway 17.
- Paul Pittman Memorial Airport, Walthall – $80,153 to construct an aircraft maintenance hangar.
“Airport Improvement Program grants will allow more Mississippi airfields to maintain and improve their facilities, and to bring them into compliance with current safety standards. All this work is increasingly important as our state acts to attract more jobs and economic development,” Hyde-Smith said.