Columbus AFB runway completed

Columbus (Miss.) Air Force Base has completed its $32 million center-runway project – which had about 20 percent pavement-life remaining from the original build in 1959 – and has been reopened to military Air Force and foreign-nation pilot training at the East Mississippi facility. The 12,000-feet long, 10-inch thick concrete runway has seen more than 12,000 pilots from more than 50 nations use the Columbus landing facility. Source: The Associated Press, Sept. 9, 2013.