Carnegie airport gets FAA grant

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  • Ledger photo by Curtis Awbrey -Carnegie Municipal Airport logged an estimated 1,000 operations, during a 12-month period ending June 4, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – A $266,666 federal grant will pay for installation of taxiway lighting and perimeter fencing at Carnegie Municipal Airport, longtime Manager Robert Pettit said.

The grant was one of 14 from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that totaled $15.9 million earmarked for Oklahoma airports. The grant is a mixture of FAA Airport Improvement Program and CARES Act funding.

It was estimated the Carnegie airport logged 1,000 operations (400 local and 600 itinerant) during the 12-month period that ended June 4, 2020, when the facility was last inspected, FAA records reflect.

“We have a lot of student pilots who come here to practice takeoffs and landings,” said Pettit, a pilot who said he flies Super Cubs and Cessna 172s and 182s.

Nine aircraft were based at the airport at the time of the June inspection. Those included six single-engine airplanes, one multi-engine airplane, and two helicopters.

The 84-acre Carnegie airport was activated on December 1, 1972, Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission records show.

The airport has a 3,000- foot-long by 60-foot-wide asphalt concrete Runway 17/35. (Asphalt concrete is a composite material that consists of mineral aggregate bound together with asphalt, laid in layers and compacted. It is used to surface roads, parking lots and airports.)