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April 25, 1968 Aviation Daily Page 285 FAA ALLOCATES $74.7 MILLION FOR 397 FAAP PROJECTS IN FISCAL '69 FAA has allocated a total of $74.7 million under the Federal-Aid Airport Program for fiscal 1969, using $70 million appropriated by Congress and money carried over from previous years. Some $67.7 million will be used to improve 356 existing airports and $7 million to build 41 new ones. The program, which represents a slight increase over the $70.2 million allocated to 386 projects last year, was developed from a record 773 requests for a total of $392 million. It will help pay for new runways at 86 locations, runway extensions to accommodate larger aircraft at 77 points, additional facilities at 70 locations providing air taxi service, strengthening and reconstruction of runways to handle heavier aircraft at 52 airports, construction or improvement of 52 fields to attract general aviation traffic away from congested hub, new facilities at 22 airports served by local carriers to permit use of new type aircraft, and acquisition of land for clear zones at 130 points. California will get more '69 FAAP money than any other state--$6,644,582 for 36 projects. Texas was second with $5,133,819 for 27 projects, followed by Alaska with $5,030,365 for four projects, including the largest single airport grant in the program. This will provide $3,074,700 for site preparation for a new parallel runway and associated taxiways at State of Alaska International. Other top 10 states and their allocations are: Illinois, $4,031,088; Georgia, $2,993,065; Ohio, $2,739,926; New Jersey, $2,671,798; North Caroline, $2,503,671; New York, $2,497,213, and Florida, $2,372,286. FAA earmarked $500,000 to construct and mark a runway and taxiways at Miami's planned training jetport in the Everglades (DAILY, April 17) and $858,900 for various projects at Teterboro, N.J., airport, which is being improved as a New York general aviation center. Other major projects in the new program include: $1,006,775 for land and site preparation at a new airport at Ketchikan, Alaska; $1 million to construct a highway underpass at Los Angeles International; $1 million for various improvements at Atlanta Airport; $1 million for a parallel taxiway extension and other work at Chicago's O'Hare, and $1 million for several projects at Boston's Logan. Also, $1 million to extend and mark a runway and perform other work at Kansas City (Mo.) Municipal; $1 million for various projects at Newark; $1,510,262 for land, paving and marking at Dayton Municipal; $1,098,005 for work at Portland (Ore.) International; $1 million for clearing, grading and drainage for crosswind runways and related taxiways at the new Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport, and $1 million to pave a runway and taxiways at Seattle-Tacoma International. TRAFFIC Northeast Airlines reported a 55 percent gain in revenue passenger-miles for March, flying 175,990,000 last month over the 113,570,000 flown in March, 1967. Available seat-miles were up 84.4 percent, and load factor was 51.9 percent, compared with 61.7 percent reported the same month a year ago. Continental Airlines posted a 29.1 percent gain for the first quarter of 1968 in domestic revenue passenger-miles, flying 517,027,000, up from the 400,568,000 flown during the same period in 1967. Domestic cargo ton-miles were up 26.3 percent for the quarter, compared with figures for the same period last year. MENASCO MANUFACTURING CO. has been awarded a #3 million follow-on contract for main landing gear for the 737 jet transport by the Boeing Co. The award brings Menasco's total 737 gear commitment to 300 units. Menasco also manufactures landing gear for the Boeing 707 and 727-200 aircraft. Deliveries on the follow-on contract, which will also be produced in the company's Texas division at Fort Worth, were scheduled to begin in January, 1968, and continue through June, 1970.
