Aviation View | April 2021

95 AVIATION VIEW APRIL 2021 NORTHEAST PHI LADELPHI A A I RPORT licenses. Brewer admits, “The flight schools weren’t allowed to operate for a little while because of the pandemic, so they were negatively impacted, but they have come back. We now have four schools at the airport. Three are very small and one is larger. They’re very optimistic that next year is going to be a much better year and I think we’re all hoping that as well. Aviation is pretty resilient; aviation will come back.” The airport did receive money from the CARES Act. With an infusion of $157,000, they were able to keep on top of payroll and labor costs, while being fortunate enough not to require any layoffs or furloughs. “We are also in need of funding for infrastructure improvements because air traffic will come back to pre-pandemic levels and we need to be ready when it does,” says Brewer. “We had some infrastructure projects that fortunately we were able to continue, but there was another one that was put on hold, and there are also some future projects that now may be delayed. But if we can get money to start them back up, we can keep them going and be able to build the atkinsglobal.com Our team provided engineering services for Runway 6-24 at Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), which entailed approximately 7,000 feet of Runway 6-24 and over 2,500 feet of Taxiway pavement rehabilitation using a unique method of subgrade stabilization with cement (the first of its kind used in the northeast U.S. at a general aviation airport). This subgrade stabilization technique resulted in a savings of approximately $1.1 M, over 50,000 gallons of gas, and more than 120 days for the entire project. Runway 6-24 at Northeast Philadelphia Airport Pavement Rehabilitation Stabilizing effect.