Upgrades continue at Crossville Memorial Airport (KCSV), Tennessee.

By Jim Young Chronicle correspondent

CROSSVILLE — A lot of work has been ongoing at the Crossville Memorial Airport including long awaited T-hangars, new fuel farm and now paving of the runway, taxiways and tarmac.

The last time the airport runway was repaved was in 1987 according to Crossville records and some patching was done in the 1994. Paving was needed and the contractors are using electronic leveling process to make the runway smooth. Paving is done using a special technique that allows continuous paving even as one truck is emptied and the next truck back into place.

The airport is 1 mile long and 100 feet wide.

Some 11,000 tons of asphalt are expected to be used on the entire job. The city is responsible for just 10 percent of the total cost through a grant from the State Aeronautics Commission.

In addition to the paving, new T-hangars are finished and almost ready for use. These have been in the planning stages for sometime but were delayed for because of the need to move the automatic weather station.

Also the jet and aviation gas tank system has been redone. Currently pilots can taxi up to the avgas tanks and, using a credit card, purchase gas 24 hours a day even when no one is on duty at the airport.

Crossville’s airport has long had a history of being one of the best equipped small airports in Tennessee and has been recognized for excellence in the past.

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