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Decatur reviews 20-year airport layout plan; council directs city to form advisory board
Summary
Consultants presented a phased 20-year Airport Layout Plan that would lengthen and widen the runway, add taxiway and hangar development, and accommodate midsize business jets; council directed staff to open applications for an airport advisory board.
Consultants from Wolpert presented a 20-year Airport Layout Plan (ALP) to the Decatur City Council and said the plan is intended to guide runway, taxiway and hangar development and to support a future design standard upgrade from B1 to B2.
The plan calls for a runway widening and extension (paving over portions of runway safety areas to increase takeoff length without changing the landing surface), completion of a full parallel taxiway, phased hangar development including T-hangars and larger box hangars, and relocation of the AWOS. Consultants said the design aircraft used for future planning is a midsize business jet (a Citation family model) and that the runway improvements would reach a useful…
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