Aviation View Jan 2023

87 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4 500,000+ Square-Feet of Over 8,000 room nights MEETING SPACE and DiscoverLancaster.com/Meetings smoothly. LNS is currently engaged in the rehabilitation of its primary runway, 08-26. During construction, traffic uses the crosswind runway 13-31, and at completion, all the pavement strength will be restored. “It has been an interesting multi-year process.” Foster says, “Because we have businesses located on the field, we felt it was important to talk with them to find out what approach would work best for everyone. We decided that one 21-day continuous shutdown, while keeping the other runway open, was the best option. It did limit some traffic and some aircraft did have to go to other airports, but our stakeholders worked around the minor conflicts and understand this is necessary to keep an airport up to compliance.” Growth “We have several businesses that have expressed serious interest in the construction of Ed Foster, Executive Director of LNS LANCASTER REGIONAL A I RPORT