Another major effort is the Taxi Lane Echo reconstruction, designed to accommodate Boeing’s large aircraft.“We are redoing the center of a taxiway to group five standards and concrete,” Marcy depicts. “Boeing moves a lot of big airplanes around our facility, and the concrete or the asphalt that they move those aircraft on has to be rated to take the weight or they’ll crumble. It gives us more square footage to be able to utilize more surface when those line moves happen.” “It gives us the ability to have the infrastructure there, say 20 years from now, when there might be even more of a need for that infrastructure. Doing it now ensures the future Airport Department leadership doesn’t have to do it later,” he adds. In addition, a runway rehabilitation project is slated for next summer. “It’s the north end of our runway, the north third,” he shares. We are going to do some milling and overlay and some drainage updates.The north end of the runway is really what gets utilized 207 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 12, ISSUE 11 PAINE FIELD AIRPORT
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