GONZALES, La. -- On any given day, Louisiana Regional Airport just outside the city limits of Gonzales will have an average of 600 takeoffs and landings of small aircraft.
The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/MKLWrk ) those numbers are likely to increase this summer when the runway is extended 1,000 feet.
A construction project underway will extend the 4,000-foot runway, the length that such airport runways in the state were often built to in the past, to 5,000 feet.
The new length will satisfy insurance requirements for corporate jets of a certain weight that use the airport on hot and humid days.
Bradley Brandt, director of aviation with the state Department of Transportation and Development, says the airport was awarded $4.1 million in federal and state grants in September for the runway extension project.
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