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Hardin, Montana replacing runway with $6 million airport

August 24, 2012 /

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In the 1960s, locals built Hardin’s airport at the edge of town, near some grain elevators, the railroad tracks and the Big Horn County fairground grandstands.

"A bit of north wind through those elevators would cause a bit of a roller-coaster ride. You’d get gusts with areas of calm and then get a stronger gust," said Ed Auker, Big Horn County’s Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator, who learned to fly at the town’s airport.

Now, after 20 years of planning, Big Horn County is replacing Hardin’s general aviation runway with a $6 million airport. The new runway will be built to Federal Aviation Administration standards two miles west of town.

By Jan Falstad

Full Story: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/hardin-replacing-runway-with-million-airport/article_71abb322-06cf-5036-974b-e3d248a98bad.html

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