Photo: (From right) Airport manager Ian Darling, Peace River South MLA Mike Bernier, Coun. Terry McFadyen, Coun. Paul Gevatkoff and Mayor Dale Bumstead attend a ceremony July 5 unveiling new funding for the Dawson Creek Airport. Photograph By Mike Carter
The Government of British Columbia is providing more than $8 million in funding this year to support infrastructure improvements at 23 community and regional airports in B.C. Below is a recap on where the funding went this year and to which projects through the BC Air Access Program (BCAAP).
- Alberni Valley Regional, runway lighting: $729,215
- Baker (Burns Lake), runway rehabilitation: $552,046
- Bella Bella, terminal building upgrade: $198,750
- Bob Quinn Lake, runway resurfacing: $180,000
- Boundary Bay (Delta), helipad relocation: $174,300
- Campbell River, an airport fuel facility: $903,750
- Comox Valley, apron repairs: $35,000
- Charlie Leake Field (McBride), runway rehabilitation: $20,887
- Dawson Creek, various terminal and groundside rehabilitation works: $128,250
- Dease Lake, runway resurfacing: $861,950
- Kaslo, security fencing upgrade: $52,500
- Kamloops, apron rehabilitation: $2,599,000
- Lillooet Municipal, runway, fuel and building upgrades: $110,508
- Oliver, taxiway extension: $157,350
- Pemberton Regional, runway rehabilitation: $56,250
- Princeton Regional, runway resurfacing and fencing: $457,939
- Prince Rupert, maintenance building roof replacement: $300,000
- Quesnel Regional, security gates and GPS approach: $117,900
- South Cariboo Regional, runway enhancements: $18,375
- Trail Regional, airport terminal building: $1,180,935
- Valemount, runway crack sealing: $75,000
- Vanderhoof, GPS approach: $21,225
- Williams Lake Regional, fuel system upgrade: $150,000