(KLZA)-- Improvements are planned for the Pawnee City Municipal Airport. 

The Pawnee City Airport Authority is getting ready to construct a new 80 x 80 foot building for storing airplanes. Depending on the size of the planes, the facility should be large enough to hold an additional 6 - 10 airplanes.  The building would include a bi-fold door and there will be a concrete ramp and concrete taxi-lane built to the runway.  

Pawnee City Clerk – Treasurer Tammie Stephens also serves as the Treasurer for the Airport Authority. She told MSCNEWS the grant will cover 90-percent of the cost for the project with a local match of 10-percent. 

Currently there is one large building to store planes and several individual hangars, but the airport is full of planes and the Airport Authority has received a number or requests for a place to store more planes.  

The timetable for construction of the building is not yet finalized.