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LEXBlue Grass 🇺🇸

LEX / KLEX · Lexington, Kentucky · USA

Runways
4/229/27
Documented EMAS

1 installation · EMASMAX

Installed 2022 · Runway Safe

No separate later verification registered.

EMAS installation (1)
EMASMAX Installed 2022 Confirmed vendor: Runway Safe
Source
Blue Grass Airport Races to Repave Runway in 72 Hours
Airport Improvement · News source · 2021-11-01
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Details from the source

FAA map region: Map - Main FAA arresting-system data lists EMAS at multiple ends of runway 4/22 (04, 22); exact end not recorded. [2026-07-26] Del av ett $24,5M banrenoveringsprojekt (bana 4-22), varav EMAS-delen kostade $4M. Finansierat via FAA AIP-bidrag ($24M) + flygplatsens kapitalmedel. Löser tidigare öppen fråga om okänt installationsår från 2026-07-26-utredningen. Källa: Airport Improvement, "Blue Grass Airport Races to Repave Runway in 72 Hours" (nov 2021), https://airportimprovement.com/article/blue-grass-airport-races-repave-runway-72-hours/

Location
Blue Grass: 38.0367, -84.6086

38.0367, -84.6086

Projects and watch items
No public project or watch items registered.
Intelligence historyReal, source-backed project and funding events in chronological order - never an assumed causal link between entries
2022
USAspending grant — $4.9M, FY2022 New installation
Funding · Watch item – research candidate Needs research

Grant: $4,920,863 · A grant amount does not automatically indicate an EMAS contract value, a vendor's revenue, a total project cost, or a completed procurement - see "Estimated EMAS share" on the signal's own page for what is actually established.

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2023
USAspending grant — $9.4M, FY2023 New installation
Funding · Watch item – research candidate Needs research

Grant: $9,360,499 · A grant amount does not automatically indicate an EMAS contract value, a vendor's revenue, a total project cost, or a completed procurement - see "Estimated EMAS share" on the signal's own page for what is actually established.

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Evidence 3 sources

Source-backed, but no reviewed claim has been transcribed yet for the sources below - see each one's own link to the original source.

USAspending grant: Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board
Department of Transportation · USAspending grant · 2023-07-28 · Open source →
USAspending grant: Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board
Department of Transportation · USAspending grant · 2022-06-24 · Open source →
Blue Grass Airport Races to Repave Runway in 72 Hours
Airport Improvement · News source · 2021-11-01 · Open source →