Central Illinois airports improving infrastructure with FAA money

RANTOUL, Ill. (WCIA) — Officials are announcing more than $37 million of grants that went to Illinois airports.

In Central Illinois, more than $4.5 million went to three local airports.

Officials said the money is being used to improve terminals to handle more passengers, modernize technology and improve the integrity of taxiways. Rantoul Airport used their $2.4 million to improve their north-south runway.

“The runways are graded by a company called applied payment technology,” said Carson Vericker, the airport manager. “And they put a grade on what their asphalt is and the degrade that come off of runway 1836 was very poor.”

He says the FAA paid 90% of the runway’s re-do with the state and village splitting the rest.
Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport got $300,000 and Vermilion Regional Airport in Danville was the other central Illinois airport. They got a little more than $2 million.

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