TYLER — The Tyler City Council has unanimously voted to accept a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) totaling $7,605,000 for the new Taxiway Kilo construction and environmental assessments to reconstruct runway 4\/22 at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. The grant will pay 90% of all eligible expenses related to this runway safety improvement project. \u201cThese funds will be used to address needed maintenance and safety improvements at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport,\u201d said City Manager Mark McDaniel. \u201cWe are pleased to see this award as quality transportation services are very important for boosting local economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reconstruction of runway 4\/22 is a priority project within the Airport Master Plan due to the age of the pavement section exceeding 20 years. Additionally the runway weight capacity is below anticipated activity levels forecast within the next five years. The project also includes construction of Taxiway Kilo, which comes from a recommendation in the Master Plan to construct a full-length parallel taxiway along the western side of Runway 17\/35 to enable a safe and expeditious transition of aircraft to and from the runway and other airport facilities. The project will reduce taxiing distances for the commercial carriers and improve safety standards on the airfield. The project is also the second step toward opening land on the airport for future corporate and industrial development opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe airport\u2019s hangar space and the land available for future airside development is fully occupied, so all future growth for general aviation and aviation industrial facilities will rely on this project moving forward,\u201d said Airport Manager Davis Dickson. \u201cIn addition to the improvements to the airfield, this work will help create jobs and bolster the airport\u2019s role as a key economic engine for the East Texas Region.\u201d Visit http:\/\/www.cityoftyler.org<\/a> to read more on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TYLER — The Tyler City Council has unanimously voted to accept a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) totaling $7,605,000 for the new Taxiway Kilo construction and environmental assessments to reconstruct runway 4\/22 at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. The grant will pay 90% of all eligible expenses related to this runway safety improvement project. … Continue reading New FAA Grant Approved for Airport<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 22:11:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200455"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200693,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200455\/revisions\/200693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}