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March 20, 2010

By Robert Barron, Staff Writer Enid News and Eagle The Enid News and Eagle Sat Mar 20, 2010, 10:41 PM CDT

ENID — Enid Woodring Regional Airport is a busy place these days, not just with airplanes and fuel but expansion work as well.

A new airport rescue firefighting vehicle and maintenance building currently is under construction. The facility will house the airport’s firefighting and snow removal equipment. It replaces a building constructed in the 1940s, and Airport Director Dan Ohnesorge hopes to see it complete this summer.

Another project is lengthening 66th Street, where it runs along the east perimeter of the airport, for better utilization by Cimarron Industrial Park and the foreign trade zone there. That project is expected to start in mid-May and be completed in about eight months, Ohnesorge said.

“It was helped along with a $400,000 grant from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation industrial road program,” he said.

The foreign trade zone allows businesses to trade in products duty free or at reduced duty costs.

KC Electric also is installing a Precision Approach Path Indicator that guides approaching aircraft to the proper angle when landing.

“We’re also working with other electrical projects on the main runway. It should be done in 60 days depending on weather,” he said.

Ohnesorge and Airport Advisory Board members are proceeding with the airport master plan to build the type of airport Enid will need in the future.

“We envision 25 years in the future and try to sequence improvements to the airport. We’re getting input from pilots, the airport board members,” he said.

A major project coming in the near future is a micro-surface for runway 13/31 and the associated taxiway. Ohnesorge said the current overlay is asphalt containing significant cracking, and Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission has allowed a grant to fix the cracks and put a micro-surface on it.

Crews also are working on a terminal renovation. The old TSA room has been turned into an additional dining area, and Ohnesorge wants to perform some remodeling to make it bigger. City crews have done part of the work, which saved the city significant savings on the project.

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