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HANNIBAL â The city of Hannibal hopes to use a state grant to help pay for the replacement of aging runway lights at the airport.
During Tuesday nightâs meeting of the Hannibal City Council at city hall the department of public works was granted permission to apply for a Missouri Department of Transportation aviation grant to be used to replace runway lights, the Precision Approach Path Indicator and Runway End Identifier Lights at Hannibal Regional Airport.
âCurrently our runway lights are out of compliance due to their height and age,â said Andy Dorian, the cityâs director of central services. âIn addition our PAPI and REIL are at the end of their useful lives and are suffering consistent failures.â
Kevin DeTray, manager of the Port Bucyrus-Crawford County Airport, updated council members on an improvement project. Earlier this year, the council appropriated funds for . our 5% of the FAA project to be done at the airport, he said. I think the engineering estimate was $1.6 million, and our 5% was $80,000, so that was what was appropriated.
At a meeting in January, Detray explained two improvements were planned this year, the upgrade of a Precision Approach Path Indicator on Runway 4 and construction of a parallel taxiway extension.
But bids for the project came in considerably higher than the engineering estimate, mostly because of changes requested by the Federal Aviation Administration, DeTray said Tuesday. So the FAA announced Monday it had decided to pay the full cost of the project, freeing up that $80,000.