This past month you will have seen that we have new hangar paving done on the taxiways leading to the AFC hangars as well as the X Friesen hangars. This was a huge project that was led by the YXX Hangar Rental folks, led by Steve Stewart and Kevin Mickleby which was assisted by Janet Martens. This is the result of alot of hard work by these three and the results speak for themselves. This project could not have been done without the grant from the British Columbia Air Access Program, which we are grateful for.

Once the tenders went out and the supplier identified and contracted to do the work. Firstly engineering took place to establish the current state and then the real work began by doing some work to improve the drainage and then ripping up the old pavement and levelling out the foundation layer first in the soil and then a bed of gravel being accurately laid down. It was discovered that some of the pavement was only a few inches thick in some spots, especially in the older paved areas and then improving slightly for the newer sections. Needless to say that the new paving is not only supported properly by high quality gravel but also with proper thickness asphalt paving.

Many thanks to those who submitted photos! More photos can be seen on the AFC Facebook photo gallery under “Photos”

Temporary parking for aircraft while the project is on

Pulling up the old paving

Reworking the foundation bed

Drainage improvements

Drainage with gravel and piping

Laying down the gravel bed

Lineup of trucks

Paving work

Laying down the asphalt

Fresh Asphalt. No lines yet

Paving complete with new centre line painting

Paul Monchamp repositioning aircraft

All done