Franklin County receives more money for runway lighting upgrades

Franklin County commissioners have agreed to accept more state money to upgrade the runway lighting system at the Apalachicola airport.

The board agreed last week to accept an additional 860 thousand dollars for improvements to the runway lighting bringing the total funding for the project up to 1.1 million dollars. 

The project will replace all the runway lights with lower energy bulbs so that the two main runways will come up when keyed by an incoming plane. 

At this time, because of the energy demand used by the older style lights, only one runway can be keyed up at a time. 

The newer lights will also decrease energy use at the airport, which will save the county money since the

County pays for the runway and taxiway lights. 

The project is currently in the design phase.

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