July 2011 - Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport

LEWISTON-NEZ PERCE
COUNTY AIRPORT
AUTHORITY
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4
LW S
A I R P O R T
R E P O R T
JULY 25, 2011
IN A GENERATION OF GREATS...
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
SPOTLIGHT ON
BUSINESS
2
SOUTHSIDE
AIRPARK UPDATE
2
LWS: A CERTIFICATED AIRPORT
2
GUESS...
3
BUSINESS STATISTICS
4
AUTHORITY
MEETING &
CONTACT IN-
4
...there was the B-25
Mitchell. This one, dubbed
“Maid in the Shade” pulled onto
the airport ramp Thursday, July
21st making her presence
known first by the deep, throaty
rumble of her twin rotary engines echoing across the valley.
Almost 10,000 of her kind
were produced primarily for the
Army Air Corps in World War II.
Today there’s only a handful left
flying and it took 28 years to
restore this one. She’s a combat veteran with 15 missions
flying out of Italy in 1944.
home-builts, and the locallyfamous Curtiss-Pusher. A crowdpleaser, she no sooner taxied to
parking than dozens of fans were
lining the fence, arriving early for
a chance to see up close and
personal the aircraft that carried
some of the Greatest Generation
into battle. Hundreds more spectators enjoyed Saturday’s old-
Maid in the Shade came to
help out with the Experimental
Aircraft Association’s Annual Air
Fair, featuring military aircraft,
NOTICES:
 Got a hangar for rent
or sale? Let us help.
We’ll put a notice in
the Airport Report if
you get us the details.
 The Airport Authority
Board meets next on
July 13th at 5:00 pm in
the Authority Conference Room, 3rd floor
of the airport terminal
building. Among the
items on their agenda:
Setting a date for a
public hearing on the
proposed Authority
budget.
WILDLIFE HAZARD ASSESSMENT
January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus
320 took off from LaGuardia
International Airport. Six minutes later it was in the HudsonRiver. Fortunately, all 155 occupants safely evacuated the
aircraft and were rescued.
For those who haven’t heard
that story—welcome to planet
Earth. Those more intimately
involved in the aviation industry, however, know that bird
strikes are unfortunately more
common than the general
population understands. And
shortly after the Miracle on the
Hudson, the Federal Aviation
Administration initiated plans to
do something about it.
One of the FAA’s initiatives
which came in the form of a
mandate is make sure a wildlife
hazard assessment is conduc(Continued on Page 2)
fashioned air festival with
food, excitement, and nostalgia blending in one of the
best aviation open houses
ever. Congratulations and
thanks for a wonderful event
go out to Frank Miles, Ralph
Stout, Friends of the Airport,
and the entire general aviation community!
LWS AIRPORT REPORT
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS:
Remember when it was
called, Federal Express?
Shortened to FEDEX in 2000,
this company moved onto the
Lewiston-Nez Perce County
Regional Airport in 1987 and
literally changed the way the
Region did business.
Immediately, companies
around the region found they
could reduce the amount of
parts and supplies they had
to keep in inventory.
FEDEX
“Why carry so much stock
on the bench when you can
have spare parts delivered
over night?” said one satisfied customer.
Millions of pounds of
cargo are brought into and
out of the airport every year
and FEDEX accounts for a
large percentage of the total.
Their 18,000 square foot
cargo complex was completed in 1993.
WILDLIFE HAZARD ASSESSMENT
ducted at every airport in the
nation of any size, complexity, or activity level. And if the
study indicates an airport has
a significant wildlife hazard
potential, the airport will be
required to develop a plan to
mitigate the hazard.
Fortunately, the FAA will
cover 95% of the costs of
conducting the study at
Lewiston as well as the costs
of—if necessary—developing
the mitigation plan.
Following FAA guidelines,
USKH, a local engineering
firm, was hired to do the research. Wildlife biologist,
Russell Defusco—himself the
survivor of a bird-strike aircraft accident will spend
more than 12 months studying wildlife patterns and habitate on and around the airport to insure seasonal migratory patterns are accounted for.
The Boeing 727 freighter
pictured at right was only on
display for an air show; LWS
FEDEX uses a series of
Cessna Caravan cargo aircraft operated by Empire
Airlines out of Coeur d’ Alene,
Idaho to meet the stringent
on-time performance expected by its Memphis, Tennessee headquarters. What
kind of performance? The
airways are our interstate
highway and your package
the Airport Authority Board in
September or October.
“The Airport is not a
wildlife refuge.”
-Russell P. Defusco
FAA Certified Wildlife
Biologist
USKH is expected to brief
“Amazing,” was the oftrepeated word as the small
bus weaved its way around
mountains of broken-up basalt rock. To date, approximately 150,000 cubic yards
of material has been moved
out of an estimated project
total of over a half million.
Barnes, Inc, sometimes
drilling as many as 40 holes
before packing them with
explosives, is in charge of
making little rocks from big
Locally, FedEx employs more
than 20 employees. Teresa Wilson
manages the station.
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SOUTHSIDE AIRPARK UPDATE
Thanks to the Red Lion, a
courtesy bus took the Airport
Authority Board, Friends of
the Airport, County Commissioners, and economic development officials on a tour of
the construction zone on the
airport’s south side July 13th.
can go from one end of the country
to the other—Lewiston to Miami
overnight.
ones.
“That’s what happens
every time they light the
fuse,” said one observer.
Several thousand linear
feet of water line and sewer
line have been installed, but
the remaining pipe and lift
station will wait until the
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VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4
LWS:
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A CERTIFICATED AIRPORT
The Federal Aviation Act
of 1958 established the
rules we know today as FAR
Part 139, Certification of Air
Carrier Airports. The Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport became Certificated on May 21, 1973.
Whether it’s a major hub
or a small, regional airport
like LWS, the requirements
for certification are much the
same—certification sets
safety standards. To be certified, airport owners must
insure their airport meets the
standards.
What does that mean?
This series of articles will
answer that question and
hopefully take you inside the
daily functions of a modern
airport.
Generally speaking, airlines are only allowed to
engage in air carrier service
at certificated airports. One
of the most visible requirements for certification is
(PART 1)
Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Service or ARFF.
The certificate holder (or
airport owner) must insure
the right amount and kind of
equipment and right number
of trained firefighters are on
duty from fifteen minutes
prior to an air carrier’s arrival
through fifteen minutes after. For LWS, that means at
least one fire fighter in the
yellow, specially designed, EOne (or Emergency One, the
manufacturer) fire truck.
SOUTHSIDE AIRPARK UPDATE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2)
remaining terrain has been
brought down to grade.
Last week in a step that
brings the Southside Airpark
another step closer to reality,
the Federal Aviation Administration awarded the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport a grant to begin
designing the aviation infrastructure.
Riedesel & Associates, a
local engineering firm was
retained to do the design of
a parallel taxiway, apron
areas, and taxiway lights.
The taxiway will stretch
from the approach end of
runway 08 to approximately
abeam Taxiway Hotel.
Although the design-only
grant will give the regional
airport a “shovel-ready”
project, a construction
grant is expected in late
winter or early spring of
2012. That would put the
Airport Authority in line to
begin construction in late
spring or early summer.
The South Side Airpark
project is funded by the Economic Development Administration, the State of Idaho,
the City of Lewiston, and Nez
Perce County. Albright Construction is the prime contractor.
GUESS...
Who?
→
And Guess Who? from
the June 25th Airport
Report:
→
Edward Virgil Adair
The E-1 has been on duty steady
since 1996, and though it’s helped
put out a few grass fires, it’s never
been used for an actual aircraft
accident. Staff hopes it will be retired into reserve in the next five
years with the same distinction!
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Business Statistics
LEWISTON-NEZ PERCE
COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY
Year-to-Date
406 Burrell Avenue
Suite 301
Air Traffic
Lewiston, ID 83501
Operations
2010
2011
16,747
16,688
26,659
28,630
Phone: 208-746-7962
Fax: 208-798-0591
Scheduled
Airline
Boardings
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