SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Shreveport Regional Airport has finished a seven-month, $5 million project to repave the facility’s secondary runway.
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The runway was opened Friday.
Bill Cooksey, the airport’s deputy director, tells the Shreveport Times (http://bit.ly/11sT515 ) that planes landing before the repairs kicked up rock and loose gravel. He says the runway was deteriorating very rapidly.
Shreveport Regional is home to 85 general aviation aircraft. They are the ones that most often will use the secondary runway, which at 6,202 feet long can accommodate most plane types up to larger, narrow-body aircraft.
Larger planes still have use of the airport’s primary runway, which is 8,351 feet long.
The repairs were funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development’s aviation division.
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Information from: The Times, http://www.shreveporttimes.com
