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Runway Changes at QC Airport

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix
Published April 28, 2022 at 3:07 PM CDT
the QC Airport with the three runways intersecting in the middle, showing how the general aviation runway will be shortened.
Quad Cities International Airport
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the QC Airport with the three runways intersecting in the middle, showing how the general aviation runway will be shortened.

Thanks to federal funding, construction has finally started on a long, planned-for project at the Quad Cities International Airport.

the Quad Cities International Airport
the Quad Cities International Airport

The general aviation runway will be shortened and a new taxiway will allow commercial flights to move around the airport faster.

Spokeswoman Ashleigh Davis says airport operations will be much safer once the general aviation runway is shortened from 5,000 to 3,500 feet.

"We're going to shorten that to 3,500 feet which will basically detach it from the other two commercial runways. That'll create a separate campus that our general aviation pilots can access from the hangar area. So, right on to the their runway, right back again, not having to compete with commercial traffic."

Currently the three runways intersect.

Funding for the 10 million dollar project comes from the Federal Aviation Administration and ARPA, the American Rescue Plan Act. And it's expected to be completed by November.

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Herb Trix
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois. While a graduate student in the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield (then known as Sangamon State University), he got his first taste of public radio, covering Illinois state government for WUIS. Here in the Quad Cities, Herb worked for WHBF Radio before coming to WVIK in 1987. Herb also produces the weekly public affairs feature Midwest Week – covering the news behind the news by interviewing reporters about the stories they cover.
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