Lake Wales Municipal Airport

5 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 11 aging 10,000-gallon tanks and with extra funding from the FAA and the Florida Department of Transportation, Lake Wales Municipal airport will be receiving two 12,000-gallon fuel tanks. “These tanks will also have the ability to offload fuel and so we will be purchasing fuel trucks. We also had a wildlife hazard assessment done, which has resulted in a few landscaping changes as well as the realization that we need to extend our security fence along the south side of the airport as well. That is all cattle ranches, and we have cattle fencing, but the assessment determined it was not sufficient,” she describes. “This coming year we also hope to take some of the extra funding and do some small security upgrades. We need a few more security cameras, and one of our gates is still a padlocked gate, which we would like to put onto our secure card entry system.” Lake Wales Airport has also recently completed