Projects range from runway extensions to terminal upgrades and improving fire protection.
The province is spending close to $20 million to help improve regional airports through 40 projects at 29 airports.
Money from the B.C. Air Access program will “help move people and goods, improve safety and benefit front-line services, like air ambulance and wildfire fighting, as well as making for more secure access to remote and Indigenous communities,” said Rob Fleming, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure.
• Comox: $374,550 to install solar power and provide electrification of ground support equipment and utility vehicles.• Courtenay: $131,450 to pave an air ambulance patient transfer area and replace a floatplane dock
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