Midvale Airport Resurfacing Project Underway

Thanks to a $570,000 grant from the Idaho Division of Aeronautics the runway at the Lee Williams Memorial Airport in Midvale is removing it’s old asphalt layer. The city is paying an additional $66,000 from it’s airport fund. Crews from Idaho Materials & Construction began removing the old asphalt July 10.

The entire airstrip will be resurfaced and also the apron area where planes and vehicles park, and the landing pad near the hangers where helicopters land. The project is expected to be finished by July 26.

It was 2005 when the runway was first paved. Airport manager David Craig made sure to be there that next morning so he could be the first to take off and land on the shiny black strip. The grant from the Idaho Division of Aeronautics that year did the project with $175,000.

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