Regional airports in Massett and Quesnel are among 16 receiving BC Air Access Program grants.
In total, 8 million dollars in grants will be split across 21 projects to support safety and infrastructure improvements.
For its 5th year, the program emphasized projects which improve airport safety, offer medevac and wildfire suppression support, and reduce environmental impacts.
In Quesnel, 30 thousand dollars will go towards airside sidewalks and building upgrades to improve fire protection.
Masset’s upgrades also come in the form of fire protection with nearly 480 thousand dollars going toward an underground fuel tank replacement.
A full list of approved projects follows:
BC Air Access Program 2019-20 grant recipients
Airports and projects
^ Facilities receiving funding for the first time this year
* ^ Castlegar – $1 million
* Apron/taxiway pavement rehabilitation project
* Creston – $105,706
* Airside storage building
* Fairmont Hot Springs – $17,087
* Replacement of electronics, including a hazard beacon
* ^ Fort Ware (Kwadacha) – $1.7 million
* Runway extension
* Airport lighting system
* Lillooet – $165,000
* Replacement of airport fuel tanks
* ^ Mackenzie – $663,158
* Terminal building upgrades
* Fuel system upgrades
* Ice removal/friction measuring system
* Fire protection upgrades
* ^ Masset – $479,877
* Underground fuel tank replacement
* McBride – $75,000
* Automated weather observation system project
* Pitt Meadows – $1 million
* Main apron 1 rehabilitation/upgrade project
* Port Alberni – $64,875
* Automatic weather observation system project
* ^ Port McNeill – $28,000
* Runway lights
* Quesnel – $30,000
* Airside sidewalks and operations building upgrades
* ^ Sechelt – $1 million
* Runway resurfacing and extension
* Valemount – $148,817
* Fuel tank upgrade
* ^ Vancouver Harbour Heliport – $1.3 million
* Airside – ramp, fuel, containment
* Vanderhoof – $80,000
* Apron expansion project
