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Griffith Company continues
to lay that very groundwork — even while the
rest of us are fast asleep. These days Griffith’s
construction crews are working deep into the night
on an ambitious year-long $25.5 million rehabilitation
projection of the main runway of Long Beach Airport.
Each night when Long Beach Airport closes for transportation
business, the Runway 12-30 renovation workday begins. The complex
task includes paving, electrical work, grading, storm drain
work and striping operations on the runway’s vast, 10,200-foot-long
by 200-foot-wide surface. |
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By 6 a.m., the runway reopens and
the Airport opens for business, without skipping
a beat.
Long Beach Airport’s main runway has a
colorful history, and served as the rollout site
for the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in August 1970.
The runway was originally built in the 1950s
and was most recently rehabilitated in 1978.
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