The City of Soldotna agreed to allocate the funding sources for the Soldotna Airport Master Plan Project to proceed into Phase two.
Lee Frey stood in for Airport Manager Kyle Kornelis at the Wednesday city council meeting, after which he detailed what phase two will include.
Frey: “They’re going to be doing some aerial imaging of the airport that’s going to include some land surveying, some aerial surveying, they’ll be doing a lot of 3D imaging of not just the airport but areas around the airport to look for clearances of trees for all the different aircraft flying in and out of there. They’ll be getting some GIS data from all that and it’ll be uploaded into FAA’s database. That’s the main goal of that phase.”
Currently the airport is undergoing asphalt improvements and an apron expansion, which is part of phase one of the Master Plan.
Council member Keith Baxter said the Airport Commission was recently given a presentation from the airport’s engineering consultant, Mark Blanning.
Baxter: “It’s 163 aircraft that regularly use that airport and 58% of those have 99669 zip codes.”
The funding approved for Phase two includes a $250,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, a State of Alaska grant for $8,300 and a matching amount from the city of $8,300.
Phase one is slated to be finished this August.
