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Oops! Obama's entourage wrecked runway at tiny Marlborough Airport
Robert Stetson said Obama's motorcade -- welcomed when America’s chief executive paid a surprise April 1 visit to emergency workers responding to the region’s worst floods in memory -- ruined the surface of the runway of his tiny airport in Marlborough. (www.boston.com) Mehr...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The airport mentioned in this article is visible here: [http://flightaware.com/live/airport/9B1]
The project most critical to the future of Marlboro Airport, he believes, is the re-construction of its deteriorating movement surfaces. The runway and taxiway pavement is over 40 years old, he says, and was not very good when it was new in that its only oil and sand over a turf base. Cost estimates for the re-construction are in the $1 million range. Reluctantly, he predicts: The airport will fail to survive if the runway and taxiways are not replaced soon.