Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Justification and Planning for Willard Airport (1942) [PAGE 8]

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runway lengths Ot 4j H feet and an administration building) and in) clude: drainage, fencing, marking, wind direction indicator, lighting, hangar and shop, fueling, weather bureau, two-way radio, and visual traffic control. The lighting requirements include: airport heacon, boundary lights, range lights, obstruction lights, illuminated wind cone. apron flood lighting, traffic pistol light, illuminated wind t . ceiling < projector. runwa\ contact lights, and approach lights On every runway equipped for instrument landing. The width of usable landing strips should be 500 feet and runways should have a width of 150

feet ( 2 0 0 feet is required for r u n w a y s equipped for i n s t r u m e n t landings and should be laid out so that landings can he m a d e within 22.5° the wind direction 9 0 p e r cent of t h e time when wind velocities exceed 4 miles p e r h o u r .

Proposal for the Acquisition and Operation of a University-Owned Airport

Since the operation of an airport at the University depends entirely upon tin Lcquisition of a suitable area for a flying field, and its subse[uent construction and equipment, the following program of procedure i- nec< tril) involved in providing for such an airport: 1. Purchase of a tract of land, approved by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, fr m funds provided through an appropriation by the d Assembly of Illinois. Proposed amount. $200,000. 2. Pn ation of plans and specifications for converting this tract into a t: ing Held which will meet the (lass 3 requirements of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Such services have been offered by tin Illim Aeronautics Commission provided the University controls tin i 1 improve 1 No funds are required of University ^i Illinois. . . Funds for the improvement of the field—-grading, drainage, runways, ami air; >rt lighting may he secured as a 100 per

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