Bluegrass Airport Closes Runway to get Ready for Construction

Blue Grass Airport permanently closed its smaller runway on Friday so it can begin construction on a relocated and realigned replacement.

The redesigned runway will no longer intersect with the airport’s main 7,000-foot runway, which will remain open during the construction.

The smaller runway is the one from which Comair Flight 5191 mistakenly departed before crashing in August 2006.  The new $27 million runway is expected to be completed in time for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, an event that is expected to bring a much higher number of the private aircraft than the runway normally serves…

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Date: 02-14-2009
Source: www.kentucky.com