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Airport director details $7.6 million runway rehab, new rescue truck and EAS funding uncertainty
Summary
Bridal Coast Airport director Sean Rosenthal told Crescent City Council the runway mill-and-repave cost about $7.6 million (95% FAA reimbursed), described a post‑rehab sinkage that required reconstruction, announced a new 2024 Rosenbauer ARFF truck and warned that federal Essential Air Service funding faced temporary uncertainty during a government shutdown.
Bridal Coast Airport Director Sean Rosenthal told the Crescent City Council the airport completed a major runway rehabilitation this year and continues planning several related infrastructure projects.
Rosenthal said the runway milling and repaving project totaled about $7,600,000, with the Federal Aviation Administration reimbursing approximately 95 percent of the cost. "The work performed was the runway was milled and repaved, markings painted and beaded, runway lighting upgrade to LED," Rosenthal said, adding that the community paid roughly $363,000 as its local share.
Rosenthal described a repaired section that later sank…
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