VOLUME 59 | ISSUE 40
WEEK OF MAY 11, 2023
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THE BUZZ OVER POLLINATORS
Unleaded fuels slated to come to Superior airport Unleaded fuel to be an option but timeline not settled BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A bumblebee rests on a flower in Butterfly Pavilion’s largest ever pollinator exhibit, Pollinator Place. See the story on page 5. PHOTO BY LUKE ZARZECKI
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An unleaded fuel option for planes is coming to Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, but the timeline isn’t known yet. According to Airport Director Paul Anslow, the fixed-based operators who provide the gas for planes are working to provide 94UL, which is unleaded fuel. But cost, the supply chain and infrastructure are the obstacles in the way — for now. “We’re working with the FBOs, with fuel producers, with the distributors to try to make it go as fast as we can,” he said. Anslow said the airport is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to receive grants for the infrastructure. That includes things like a fuel tank and a fuel truck since it would be an entirely different fuel than what is currently provided at the airport. Putting the wrong fuel into an airplane is similar to putting diesel into a gas-powered car, Anslow confirmed. “...around 10, 11 p.m., a truck comes by and tops off every one of (a flight school’s) planes, if that (person) does not know which planes require which fuels and mixes it, then SEE FUEL, P11
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