U.C. Airport receives $720K state grant

The Union County Airport recently received over $700,000 in state funding to rehab its terminal area. At the regular meeting of the airport authority board last week, Dave Gotschall, project manager with Woolpert Consultants, said that the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) approved $720,641 to go toward new tie-down aprons at the terminal and t-hangars.

Tie-down aprons are designated areas of the pavement where aircraft are secured against strong winds, propeller wash and jet blast from taxiing aircraft when they are not in active use out on the field. Aircraft can usually be secured to these tiedowns with chains, ropes or ratchet nylon straps. Most planes have three tie-down rings located at the tail section and on the wings.

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