Originally published in 1995
Andrews County Airport displayed an outstanding commitment to improve the safety, appearance, and usefulness of their airport. The airport funded eligible items through federal and state grant money. Part of the eligible construction items included removing a dip in the main runway that caused problems with takeoff and landing, and installing runway lighting on the secondary runway resulting in safer conditions during night cross- wind operations.
But the airport also managed to fund improvements that were not eligible for federal or state cost participation. The county contributed approximately $200,000 of additional funding for their airport project. These funds made it possible for the airport to extend a runway and taxiway in order to relocate a runway threshold that was too close to a golf course. This extension involved land acquisition, relocation of fencing, and a significant amount of earthwork.
Other ineligible items that the county funded were paving areas of the hangar access taxiways and the airport entrance road, rehabilitation and marking of one runway and taxiway along with a rehabilitation and marking of part of another runway.
All paved surfaces at the airport have been freshly reconstructed, overlaid or sealcoated resulting in a uni- form appearance. All NAVAIDS and lighting are in excel- lent operational condition.
We congratulate the Andrews County Airport for its hard work and outstanding airport improvements that earned them the 1995 Most Improved Airport Award.