Eleven community airports in Saskatchewan are receiving money to upgrade their facilities.
The airports will match the money from the province, similar to the short-line railway grants. They are sharing $700,000 this year, so the total investment will be twice that amount.
The recipients include:
- Rural Municipality of Frontier, $24,000 to rehabilitate runway and tarmac;
- Estevan, $103,000 to repair runway cracks and pave aprons;
- Kindersley, $7,500 to seal apron cracks;
- Maple Creek, $20,000 to install a GPS;
- Moose Jaw, $35,000 to seal runway cracks and upgrade apron and taxiway lighting;
- North Battleford, $37,500 to repair major cracks;
- Rosetown, $47,000 to install runway lighting;
- Shaunavon, $25,000 for an automated weather observation system;
- Weyburn, $197,00 to recap part of one runway and recap its main runway;
- Yorkton, $173,00 for runway and taxiway repairs, runway lighting and drainage rehabilitation.
