Report on Le Roy Airport looks at grant money recently awarded to the facility
The Batavian's news partner, 13WHAM reports on the Le Roy Airport and a $300,000 grant the facility received for upgrades and improvements:
Airport owner and manager Ray Detour took us onto the runway to show us the blue runway lights that have been replaced for the first time in 15 years. He showed us other improvements -- including new visual guidance systems to help small planes land safely.
"You don't have a light that's 15 years old in your car, do you?" said Detour. "Well here at the airport we do and that's why we're replacing them."
It is part of a $300,000 upgrade to the airport that was once a farmer's field. "We're held to the same standards as Rochester's (airport), safe passage, plowed runways, lights that are working," said Detour.
In this case, public money is funding repairs at a private airport which houses 22 small planes. The grant application to get the money says there are -- on average -- 40 takeoffs or landings at the Le Roy airport per day.
