Developments continue on a proposed multi-million dollar project to expand and extend the runway at the Fort Scott Municipal Airport.
City officials have applied for a federal grant through the Federal Aviation Administration to fund a project that would expand the current runway an additional 2,500 feet and widen it an extra 12 feet on each side. State and federal grants have been sought as engineering and survey work continues on the project. City officials have lobbied for grant money since an economic development opportunity arose for the airport in late 2017. In May, the Fort Scott airport was one of four airports to receive state funding for improvement projects. The funding came through the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Division of Aviation.
(Read more: Fort Scott Tribune)