NEBRASKA CITY – Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce Director Amy Allgood called the new self-service fuel station at the Nebraska City Municipal Airport a commitment to transportation and economic development at a ribbon cutting Wednesday.

Amanda Gress of Blue Line Aviation cut the ribbon and Airport Authority Chairman Neal Deremer credits the progression of improvements that include extending the runways, building a taxiway and now the fuel farm for advancing the city’s mission.

 

Deremer: “The overall mission for this airport, in my opinion any airport in the United States and especially Nebraska, is to serve the aviation community as a whole.”

The airport authority broke ground on a fuel farm in September to increase its fuel storage for piston-driven aircraft by 10 times and increase its Jet-A fuel storage to 15,000 gallons.

Deremer: “This airport has just grown by leaps and bounds. We’re barely able to keep up with it. This is allowing us to keep up with it, with the fuel.”

 

 For the first time, the airport doesn’t have to wait until tanks are nearly empty to order more fuel and can now order a full  load of fuel from semi-trailers. Deremer said the fuel farm provides the opportunity for full-service with Blue Line Aviation or just a fill-up.

Deremer: “This affords full-service opportunity for those aircraft, so they don’t have to rely on anybody. They can just pull up here, pay for their fuel, pump their fuel, get back in the airplane and go.”

As federal funding becomes available, the Airport Authority would like to expand its apron space so planes can park at Nebraska City and build a taxiway from the south runway to the fuel station.