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Unleaded fuels slated to come to Superior airport

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Unleaded fuel to be an option but timeline not settled

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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 xed-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.

at includes things like a fuel tank and a fuel truck since it would be an entirely di erent 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 con rmed.

“...around 10, 11 p.m., a truck comes by and tops o every one of (a ight school’s) planes, if that (person) does not know which planes require which fuels and mixes it, then

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