Aviation View Magazine | Volume 1, Issue 4

138 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4 You have arrived. Slow down and live deliberately. Canyon City • Dayville • Granite • John Day • Long Creek Prairie City • Monument • Mt Vernon • Seneca GrantCOUntyChamBEROFComMERCE 301WMain, JohnDay, OR • 541-575-0547 • www. GCOregonLive.com CHAMBER OF COMMERCE the main runway and it will end up growing from 60 feet wide to 75. The grant should be issued in early 2022, and we are looking at design and planning beginning in the spring 2022 for construction during 2023. It is very exciting and will also help with medical and fire aviation – those are the two biggest users of the airport.” Also onsite, the United States Forest Service operates an airbase and training center for rappeler firefighters, who are primarily ready to respond to any report of smoke in the nearby Malheur National Forest and the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness but can also mobilize for large fire support missions across the lower 48 states and Alaska. This base includes seven aircraft; one Bell 210 rappel ship, one A-star helitack ship, one UH-60 heavy helicopter, one UH1H, two single-engine air tankers, and one light fixed-wing. It is also a training location for new and veteran rappelers.