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individual plane owners, and the corpo- added. enal job of keeping everything organized
rate hangar, part of which is utilized by Air “i think we are improving, and just and running well out here. We have a
evac. trying to be a place with everything in great board to work with now. the county
the airport also has an instrument order so when people come in they can and city are very supportive. We are look-
approach system that is utilized during see it is a good place to locate and keep a ing up and things are looking great.”
inclement weather. plane,” Stricklin said.
About 18 months ago, the airport “in other words, you have to keep
completed a runway lighting project. everything crystal clean. Somebody may
recently the runway and taxiway walk by some day and pick-up on that and
and apron were repaired for cracks, and comeback. i think we have had success in
restriped. that the last few years.”
Currently there is a request into the
state for a project to update the ground Racetrack coming
communications outlet.
in addition, the airport is also home Shelley added that airport officials
to the 911 center on the second floor of are excited for the quarter horse racing
the terminal building, and Whitley County track that is being built in Corbin.
eMS, which built a base adjacent to the “Most of the quarter horse racing
terminal. industry is south of us so we would be
Stricklin noted that the airport was the logical stopping point. We are trying
well planned with wide-open approaches to make sure we can accommodate those
for takeoffs and landings. folks, and be able to provide whatever
“the approaches are wide-open with they need,” Shelley said. “business has
no big hills that pilots have to worry with picked up tremendously in the past two
that a lot of other small airports have,” he years. don Stricklin has done a phenom- the taxiway and runway at the airport
were repainted fairly recently.

Mayor Roddy Harrison

423 Main Street

Williamsburg, Kentucky 40769

(606) 549-6033

www.williamsburgky.com

City Clerk
Teresa Black

City Council

Patty Faulkner
Richard Foley
Erica Harris
Loren Connell
Mary Ann Stanfi ll
Laurel West