{"id":165621,"date":"2023-04-28T23:51:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=165621"},"modified":"2023-04-28T23:51:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T04:51:53","slug":"vw-airport-receives-90000-faa-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/04\/28\/vw-airport-receives-90000-faa-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"VW airport receives $90,000 FAA grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Van Wert County Airport was one of five northwest Ohio airports to receive Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant totaling $735,787&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding from FAA includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert airport&nbsp;received a grant of&nbsp;&nbsp;$89,676&nbsp;to reconstruct an existing runway lighting system, construct a lighting vault to meet FAA standards, and install replacement runway end identifier lights to make the airport more accessible by improving approaches to the runway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other area airports receiving FAA grants are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$310,159&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Bluffton Airport&nbsp;to reconstruct taxi lane pavement and shift the hangar taxiway to meet FAA design standards.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$94,950&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Lakefield Airport&nbsp;in&nbsp;Celina&nbsp;to conduct a new airport drainage study.&nbsp;<\/li><li>$88,002&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Lima Allen County Airport&nbsp;to rehabilitate existing taxiway pavement and connector pavement.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Van Wert County Airport was one of five northwest Ohio airports to receive Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant totaling $735,787&nbsp; Funding from FAA includes: The Van Wert airport&nbsp;received a grant of&nbsp;&nbsp;$89,676&nbsp;to reconstruct an existing runway lighting system, construct a lighting vault to meet FAA standards, and install replacement runway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:24:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165622,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165621\/revisions\/165622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}