Plans are advancing for work that will see a significant reconstruction of a taxiway at the Clovis Regional Airport.
Funding to the tune of $2.8 million for the project is coming through the Federal Aviation Administration, as part of an overall $11 million the agency is providing for a series of airport infrastructure projects across New Mexico.
Located some six miles to the east of downtown Clovis, the airport, whose property spans around 1,500 acres, sees around 2,500 enplanements a year.
The FAA funding for Clovis will also fund work sealing the pavement and pavement joints of the airport’s runway.
The Clovis airport, which was opened in the spring of 1959, has taken on a number of large infrastructure projects in recent months. Last year, with some $2.1 million in funding from the New Mexico Economic Development Department, it launched work on a water transmission extension project.
That project has centered on the building of a nearly 4-mile-long main water line connecting the airport to an existing City of Clovis water system.
Other new FAA-funded New Mexico airport projects include runway rehabilitation work at the Double Eagle II Airport in Albuquerque, which is receiving $4.5 million; and a taxiway reconstruction project at the Grants-Milan Municipal Airport, receiving nearly $2.5 million in funding.
In a statement, Senator Martin Heinrich underlined the importance of the FAA funding for smaller airports in New Mexico, noting that such facilities “connect rural communities in our state to healthcare services and important economic opportunities.”
By Garry Boulard
