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The Air Force said Friday that it plans to build a $150 million runway extension at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson that officials say will reshape air traffic over Anchorage while easing jet ...
Big Cold War runway Aniak grew up around the airfield, one of the oldest in Alaska. The Civil Aeronautics Authority project began in 1939 during the buildup to World War II, according to a history ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Air Force is planning a $150 million project to extend the runway at Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson so it can to reduce airspace congestion ...
The state Department of Transportation, contracting with Knik Construction, broke ground this past spring on the hub village of Aniak’s new runway, a project long in the making. Listen now ...
The Alaska Department of Transportation plans to repave the runway after repairing the dips caused by melting permafrost. State to repair parallel runway at Bethel airport next summer ...
Alaska plans to equip its entire Boeing 737 and MD80 fleets with a Honeywell system designed to prevent runway incursions. The runway awareness and advisory system uses GPS and an internal runway ...
DEERING, Alaska. -- Residents of a small Alaskan town used their vehicles to light up a dark runway to help a medevac plane land so it could transport a baby in need on Sunday.
Alaska’s Anchorage-to-Utqiaġvik route (Photo: GCMap) According to Cirium Diio schedule data, Utqiaġvik is typically served with Boeing 737-800, 737-800, and E175 aircraft.
The runway lights at the state-owned airport in Igiugig, Alaska — population 70 — had failed, hampering efforts on Friday night to airlift a local girl to the nearest hospital in Anchorage ...
The tails of two Alaska Airlines flights on Jan. 26 struck the runway, the result of bad automated data. The mishaps point to the need for more vigilance by pilots.
Air Force plans $150M runway extension at Anchorage base. ... Press Aug 20, 2018. An Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to the 3rd Wing flies over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Feb. 27, 2018.