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BC Air Access Program projects

Air facilities in the following communities have received funding through the BC Air Access Program for 2023-24.

  • 108 Mile – $2 million for runway rehabilitation
  • Bob Quinn Lake – $87,650 for an airport master plan and for a solar-powered weather camera with altimeter and satellite uplink
  • Chilliwack – $1.9 million to extend the runway and upgrade lighting
  • Comox – $374,550 to install solar power and provide electrification of ground support equipment and utility vehicles
  • Courtenay – $131,450 to pave an air ambulance patient transfer area and replace a floatplane dock
  • Creston Valley – $48,000 for an airport master plan and fuel cardlock system upgrade    
  • Dease Lake – $88,200 for an airport master plan and new batteries for solar-powered hazard beacons
  • Fairmont Hot Springs – $64,000 for an airport master plan and washroom facilities
  • Fort St. James – $2 million for the runway end safety area, lighting improvements and a master plan
  • Fraser Lake – $55,650 for pavement markings and an upgrade to runway shoulders
  • Golden – $2 million for airfield pavement rehabilitation
  • Kitimat – $511,250 for a greenhouse gas emission audit, and taxiway and apron improvements
  • Masset – $26,550 for a temporary runway, taxiway and apron lights         
  • McBride – $259,000 to rehabilitate runway and airside pavement 
  • Merritt – $304,100 for airport security fencing        
  • Nakusp – $25,000 for an airport master plan
  • Nanaimo – $2 million for runway instrument approach lighting
  • Pitt Meadows – $1.6 million to pave the runway and rehabilitate and resurface the taxiway
  • Princeton – $916,000 for airport lighting      
  • Qualicum Beach – $289,300 for avgas fuel system replacement     
  • Revelstoke – $772,100 to widen the runway
  • Salmon Arm – $1.2 million to rehabilitate the runway         
  • Squamish – $63,250 to survey and clear obstacles and replace airfield signage
  • Sun Peaks – $950,000 for a new heliport
  • Tofino (Long Beach) – $737,100 for fire protection and fire pump system improvements 
  • Vanderhoof – $330,984 for runway and apron lighting
  • Victoria Harbour Heliport – $986,850 for a fuel system upgrade
  • Williams Lake – $83,750 for an apron lighting upgrade and two automatic security gates
  • Winter Harbour – $27,300 for a helipad improvement project