The provincial government is investing $1.5 million in improvements to 15 community airports. Local matching dollars will increase this to $3 million. The Community Airport Partnership offsets the cost of rehabilitation and infrastructure improvements with cost-shared grants up to a maximum of $275 thousand.

This year’s investment will result in improvements to the following airports:
Esterhazy – $5,883 – runway and apron repairs
Humboldt – $12,500 – Relocating power lines
Kindersley – $9,000 – crack filling runway and apron, surface repairs to taxiway
Leader – $36,172.50 – crack repair and slurry seal
Maidstone – $5,926.17 – crack seal runway, taxiway and apron
Maple Creek – $43,965 – runway sealing
Melfort – $275,000 – full rehabilitation of apron
Moosomin – $275,000 – Phase 2 of runway construction
North Battleford – $135,000 – final phase of resurfacing main runway
Prince Albert – $241,500 – Taxiway F edge lighting, pull-pits, and information sign, Taxiway B installation of storm sewer and catch basins
Rockglen – $5,000 – bring airport back into service
Swift Current – $275,000 – paint markings, major rehabilitation of asphalt surfaces
Unity – $88,450 – runway resurfacing
Weyburn – $72,500 – full rehabilitation of main runway
Wynyard – $45,000 – repair cracks, slurry seal and paint markings