Airport runway in wrong place FAA 'oversight' to cost nearly $1 million to fix

DeKALB - What city officials are calling an oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration has resulted in a $1 million error at DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport. The good news, they say, is that federal tax dollars are expected to cover nearly all the cost of correcting it. More than a year after the FAA approved the city's airport layout plan, city officials were told in March that there were problems with the location of a recently constructed taxiway as it relates to the proposed location of a piece of aircraft landing equipment. The equipment, called a glide slope, will be part of the airport's instrument landing system, or ILS. An ILS is designed to allow a plane to land during times of very low visibility, generally caused by poor