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(Ankeny, IA) -- Expansions are planned for this spring at the Ankeny Regional Airport, including replacing its main runway.
The current, mile-long runway will be expanded to 6,000 feet. Ankeny Regional Airport manager Paul Moritz says this will allow the airport to accommodate larger jets:
"There's been times in the past where we've been contacted by certain aircraft owners, corporations wanting to land, and it's very difficult to land at 55 hundred feet for some of these larger jets."
Moritz says the project to replace the airport's main runway will begin this spring and take roughly a year to complete. During the runway replacement project, the entire airport will be shutdown for one month due to construction. In addition to the runway replacement, the Ankeny Regional Airport has built a number of new box hangers. The airport's 80 t-hangers are currently leased, and Moritz says there's a waiting list of about that many more people hoping to lease a hangar in the future.
The Ankeny Regional Airport is a general aviation, non-commercial airport.