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Port Columbus Opens New Runway Today

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published August 22, 2013 at 7:16 AM EDT

Port Columbus officials will open a new south runway today. Two thirds of the 140 million dollar construction cost was paid by the Federal Aviation Administration. The longer airstrip creates enough space to allow simultaneous takeoffs and landings on the neighboring north runway. The old south runway will become a taxiway.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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