Aviation View | April 2021

145 AVIATION VIEW APRIL 2021 the runway and when that happens I think it will help the whole county as far as attracting new industry.” At the present time, Connellsville Airport is getting ready to do a taxiway, thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the FAA. Major projects such as taxiway rehabilitation are 90 percent funded by the FAA, five percent by the state, and the airport contributes the other five percent – matched by Fayette County. The taxiway project is going out to bid with hopes of a June start. Neckerauer notes, “It’s been in the Master Plan for quite some time. It’s located down where we built the new hangars – that’s where most of the action takes place. We call it Taxiway Foxtrot because it was a runway when the military had the airport and it’s in very bad shape, so that’s being all redone. It won’t bring in any more business, but it will make it easier for the businesses that are already there to operate. And it will also make it easier for us to maintain the airport.” JOSEPH A . HARDY CONNELLSV I LLE A I RPORT