Rutlant, Vermont Master Plan:
FAIR HAVEN — The airport committee will focus on repairing the hangar and wait until March to revisit the runway.Last month, voters rejected moving into the next phase of the airport master plan. The plan calls for re-angling and extending the runway at the municipal airport as part of a long-term effort to develop and upgrade the facility.The $6,000 ballot item was defeated, 527-465.
Voters approved, by similar margins, other ballot items allocating a $15,000 match for a grant to repair the roof of the hangar and allowing the airport committee more flexibility in the use of town funds in maintaining and improving the grounds.Airport committee chairman William Rozensky said Tuesday that while there had been talk in town of petitioning for a revote, no petition materialized.
For the immediate future, he said the committee would focus on the hangar by pursuing the grant."In the meantime, we want to keep the hangar from deteriorating any more," he said. "Our objective is to have the roof wrapped in plastic. It should be done ASAP, before the snow really starts flying."
Once that is squared away, Rozensky said the committee plans to begin trying to again sell the voters on the airport master plan in time for Town Meeting Day.The plan would lengthen the 1,990-foot runway to 2,600 feet, while widening it from 25 to 60 feet. Rozensky has estimated the cost at $3 million, but said the project is eligible for a Federal Aviation Administration grant that could put the town's share as low as $60,000.
The FAA announced in March that the project had been placed on its five-year plan for capital improvements in New England, and that it would likely make its way to the top of the list by 2010. Rozensky said a March vote to approve the next phase — preliminary design of the new runway — would keep the town on the list.Rozensky has long argued that there is a market in the area for a functioning airport of the size that can be provided in Fair Haven and that it would be an invaluable tool for the town's economic development.
Built in the 1930s, the airport has been used primarily for local recreation in recent memory.
Please tell me Rutland has a bigger runway, I cant find an airport diagram for them. To have Commutair B1900's fly on that short of a runway is insane!
ReplyDeleteDave from Worcester
Dave:
ReplyDeleteFound this on http://www.airnav.com
Runway Information
Runway 1/19
Dimensions: 5000 x 100 ft. / 1524 x 30 m
Surface: asphalt/grooved, in good condition
Weight bearing capacity:
Single wheel: 40000 lbs
Double wheel: 68000 lbs
Runway edge lights: medium intensity
RUNWAY 1 RUNWAY 19
Latitude: 43-31.492600N 43-32.315333N
Longitude: 072-56.968867W 072-56.998500W
Elevation: 781.6 ft. 775.8 ft.
Gradient: 4 0.0
Traffic pattern: left right
Runway heading: 014 magnetic, 359 true 194 magnetic, 179 true
Markings: nonprecision, in good condition nonprecision, in good condition
Visual slope indicator: pulsating/steady burning VASI on right (3.60 degrees glide path) 4-box VASI on left (3.50 degrees glide path)
Approach lights: ODALS: omnidirectional approach lighting system
Runway end identifier lights: yes
Touchdown point: yes, no lights yes, no lights
Instrument approach: LOC/DME
Obstructions: 135 ft. hill, 4800 ft. from runway, 34:1 slope to clear none
Runway 13/31
Dimensions: 3170 x 75 ft. / 966 x 23 m
Surface: asphalt, in good condition
Weight bearing capacity:
Single wheel: 30000 lbs
Runway edge lights: medium intensity
RUNWAY 13 RUNWAY 31
Latitude: 43-31.746650N 43-31.496583N
Longitude: 072-57.280850W 072-56.651550W
Elevation: 782.5 ft. 782.6 ft.
Gradient: 3 0.0
Traffic pattern: left left
Runway heading: 134 magnetic, 119 true 314 magnetic, 299 true
Markings: basic, in good condition basic, in good condition
Visual slope indicator: 2-light PAPI on left (3.75 degrees glide path)
Runway end identifier lights: yes
Touchdown point: yes, no lights yes, no lights
Obstructions: 16 ft. road, 325 ft. from runway, 7:1 slope to clear 20 ft. trees, 600 ft. from runway, 100 ft. right of centerline, 20:1 slope to clear
Oh, yeah, forgot about airnav. Thank you.
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