Cartersville-Bartow Airport Runway Paving Project
Project Type: Airport Runway Paving & EMAS Project
Project Status: Under Construction
Cartersville-Bartow Airport
119 Dallas Hwy SW
Cartersville, GA 30120
The Cartersville-Bartow County Airport was constructed around the late 1960s and is one of 103 public use airports in Georgia that is owned by the Cartersville-Bartow County Airport Authority. It is classified as a General Aviation Airport (there are 94 General Aviation Airports and 9 Commercial Service Airports in Georgia) and is the 7th busiest General Aviation Airport in the state.
The Airport Authority has been working with the City, Bartow County, GDOT and FAA for a few years on obtaining funding for repaving the runway along with adding Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) bed to one end of the runway. Upon receiving Federal and State funding for this much needed project, bids were issued for the work and C.W. Matthews Contracting Company was hired.
Status Updates
The Paving Project began on April 5th with nightly closing of the airport runway. Starting on May 31, 2021, the airport runway was completely shut down for three weeks for the paving of the runway. Since June 19th the runway has opened up daytime operations and weather permitting the contractor is tentatively scheduled to complete the installation of the new runway lights with nighttime operations again being permitted the night of July 24th. We will keep you posted on the actual effective date for the resumption of nighttime operations.
The Paving Project began on April 5th and after several months of hard work, our contractor completed the runway paving and installation of runway lights on July 26, 2021.