PHOTO: Front of the Bourke airport. Photo: Q8682 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
The Bourke airstrip is receiving improvements and supporting the regional town’s blossoming economy thanks to $15 million in funding from the Regional Development Trust.
Funding has been allocated to the Bourke, White Cliffs, and Deniliquin airstrips.
Upgrades at Bourke will include increasing runways, lengths, widths, and weight limits allowing for heavier planes with bigger loads to land on the strip, as well as safety upgrades such as taxiway, lighting, and line markings…