{"id":2474,"date":"2021-10-01T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wyden-merkley-creswell-airport-to-receive-nearly-33-million-in-federal-funds\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:05:29","slug":"wyden-merkley-creswell-airport-to-receive-nearly-33-million-in-federal-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-creswell-airport-to-receive-nearly-33-million-in-federal-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden, Merkley: el aeropuerto de Creswell recibir\u00e1 casi $3.3 millones en fondos federales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><i><span>Washington DC<\/span><\/i><\/b><span> &ndash; U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ci.creswell.or.us\/airport\"><span>Hobby Field Airport<\/span><\/a><span> in Creswell will receive about $3.3 million in federal funds to reconstruct its runway as well as rebuild its runway lighting and airfield guidance signs.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>&ldquo;Small community airports like Hobby Field in Creswell play a key role in the quality of life in rural communities, creating jobs and economic activity by providing recreation opportunities like skydiving as well as supporting flight instruction and aircraft maintenance,&rdquo;<\/span><\/b><span> dijo Wyden. \u201c<b>I&rsquo;m glad this general aviation airport in Lane County has earned this investment to modernize its infrastructure, and I&rsquo;ll keep working to provide similar resources for airports large and small throughout Oregon<\/b>.<b>\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>&ldquo;Industries and businesses that serve rural communities need air access to create jobs and economic development opportunities,&rdquo; <\/span><\/b><span>dijo Merkley.<b> &ldquo;I am pleased that Hobby Field Airport will receive federal resources to improve the safety of their runways and ensure local businesses have that critical air service, and I will keep fighting for investments that benefit small airports like Creswell and other local economies across the state of Oregon.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>The nearly $3.3 million supplemental discretionary grant from the Federal Aviation Administration is slotted for allocation as follows: $1.96 million for runway reconstruction; $1.28 million for runway lighting reconstruction; and $55,556 for reconstruction of airfield guidance signs.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>&ldquo;The City of Creswell Airport is very excited to receive this grant,&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span>said Shelley Humble, Airport Manager, City of Creswell Hobby Field Airport.<b>&nbsp;&ldquo;The airport&rsquo;s runway is 34 years old and it is critical to complete this rehabilitation project. &nbsp; Creswell Airport is a major component of the Oregon&rsquo;s Aviation cluster linking travel throughout the Willamette Valley. &nbsp;Completion of this project will allow the airport to continue as one of the busiest general aviation airports in Oregon.&rdquo;<\/b><\/span><b><span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that Hobby Field Airport in Creswell will receive about $3.3 million in federal funds to reconstruct its runway as well as rebuild its runway lighting and airfield guidance signs. &ldquo;Small community airports like Hobby Field in Creswell play a key role in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-natural-resources-and-rural-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wyden, Merkley: Creswell Airport to Receive Nearly $3.3 Million in Federal Funds - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-creswell-airport-to-receive-nearly-33-million-in-federal-funds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wyden, Merkley: Creswell Airport to Receive Nearly $3.3 Million in Federal Funds - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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