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"Maine officials seek grants for airport"

Thursday, February 21, 2002

Biddeford seeks grants for airport
By TED COHEN
The Portland (ME) Press Herald


BIDDEFORD - The city's airport is in line for $230,000 in federal and
state grants for future improvements.

City councilors authorized City Manager Bruce Benway on Tuesday night to
apply for the grants, which would be administered by the Maine
Department of Transportation.

The FAA grants would include $80,000 to modernize the airport's master
plan and as much as $150,000 to rehabilitate the runway. The city would
provide $9,444 in matching funds.

The master plan is designed to set goals and objectives for the airport,
including improving security. Master plans are often written with future
expansions in mind, but Benway said there are no plans to expand the
airport, on Landry Road in the Biddeford Industrial Park.

An effort to expand the airport runway and facilities in the mid-1980s
was rejected in a citywide vote.

James Plamondon, a former chairman of Biddeford's now-defunct Airport
Commission, said use of the airport has increased since hangars were
built several years ago.

"It was one amenity we didn't offer," he said. "It has brought new
people to the airport who otherwise would go to Limington or Sanford."


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