CANADIAN GOVERNMENT FUNDS SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AT VANCOUVER ISLAND AIRPORT

A REGIONAL airport on Vancouver Island, British Colombia, has received Canadian dollars CAD1.3 million (USD1.26 million) in Canadian federal government funding to make lighting safety improvements. The money will fund new apron and taxiway lighting plus runway edge lighting circuits at Campbell River Airport. Aging airfield lighting components will be replaced and new airfield electrical regulators, a lighting control system and new runway guard lights will be installed, said an airport note.



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