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Rockford airport upgrades taxiway with US$2.2 million Fed fund
CHICAGO Rockford International Airport has been awarded more than US$2.1 million in federal funds to widen and repave a taxiway to better accommodate wide-body aircraft.
The $2,176,238 award is part of the multimillion-dollar effort to improve the city's airport and make it a regional business centre. The money will be used to rebuild the airport's 1,400-foot Taxiway F, according to the Rockford Register Star.
Earlier this month, the federal government said it will send $6 million to the airport to defray the ongoing $20 million addition of 25,000 square feet to the airport's passenger terminal. Weeks before that announcement came a $455,000 federal award to the airport for construction of a 30,000-square-yard cargo apron to accommodate air cargo traffic.
The recent federal aid, coupled with a $40 million local, state and federal investment in a mammoth jet maintenance hub, has primed the airport for more air cargo and passenger business.
Wood Dale-based AAR, the nation's largest operator of maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities will run the 200,000-square foot twin-hangar operation on the airport's midfield. The facility is big enough to accommodate the largest airplanes in service. AAR Corp officials say they'll hire at least 500 people to service aircraft in Rockford as the facility gets up and running in the weeks and months ahead.
Rockford's latest client is ABX Air of Wilmington, Ohio, which recently launched a daily cargo flight to the airport that will increase to two flights a day on October 1, three flights a day beginning November 1 and four flights a day on December 1.
ABX Air has hired Dallas-based Pinnacle Logistics to oversee all freight handling services on the ground and the company has already hired more than 60, mostly part-time, package handlers. More of those jobs will come as the ABX Air cargo flights amplify.
The $2,176,238 award is part of the multimillion-dollar effort to improve the city's airport and make it a regional business centre. The money will be used to rebuild the airport's 1,400-foot Taxiway F, according to the Rockford Register Star.
Earlier this month, the federal government said it will send $6 million to the airport to defray the ongoing $20 million addition of 25,000 square feet to the airport's passenger terminal. Weeks before that announcement came a $455,000 federal award to the airport for construction of a 30,000-square-yard cargo apron to accommodate air cargo traffic.
The recent federal aid, coupled with a $40 million local, state and federal investment in a mammoth jet maintenance hub, has primed the airport for more air cargo and passenger business.
Wood Dale-based AAR, the nation's largest operator of maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities will run the 200,000-square foot twin-hangar operation on the airport's midfield. The facility is big enough to accommodate the largest airplanes in service. AAR Corp officials say they'll hire at least 500 people to service aircraft in Rockford as the facility gets up and running in the weeks and months ahead.
Rockford's latest client is ABX Air of Wilmington, Ohio, which recently launched a daily cargo flight to the airport that will increase to two flights a day on October 1, three flights a day beginning November 1 and four flights a day on December 1.
ABX Air has hired Dallas-based Pinnacle Logistics to oversee all freight handling services on the ground and the company has already hired more than 60, mostly part-time, package handlers. More of those jobs will come as the ABX Air cargo flights amplify.
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