Danbury Municipal Airport Scores Federal Grant

DANBURY, CT — The City's municipal airport is one of two in Fairfield County to be named as recipients of grants allocated by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Danbury Municipal Airport will receive $157,500 to fund studies of obstructions to aircraft approaches and airfield wind coverage.

Also in Fairfield, Stratford's Sikorsky Memorial Airport (owned by the City of Bridgeport) has scored $603,000 from the Feds to buy new snow removal equipment.

The big money went here:

• General Mitchell International Airport - $600,000 to rehabilitate a runway
• State of Wisconsin - $15.5 million to help fund projects at airports across the state of Wisconsin
• Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport - $24 million to construct a taxiway
• Reno-Tahoe International Airport - $31.7 million to reconstruct a runway
• Portland International Airport (Maine) - $5.6 million to construct and taxiway and rehabilitate a taxiway
• Chicago O’Hare International Airport - $65 million to construct a runway
• Des Moines International Airport - $1.8 million to reconstruct a runway and construct a service road

"This $520.5 million in federal support to airports across the country will help to keep our nation's airports in good shape and make air travel a better experience for passengers," said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao.