REMOTE TOWERS FOR GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORTS Continued from page 21 certification. Leesburg will apply to be a member of the FAA contract tower program once the remote tower is certified. The remote tower control room will be a VFR tower that can't provide radar separation services but can use radar data for situational awareness. Controllers will be able to handle IFR traffic, Massiano noted. In Virginia, the town of Leesburg and the Loudoun The mast locations (top photo), the center camera mast (center photo) and the control room (above) at the Northern Colorado Regional Airport at Fort Collins. 22 avionics news * july 2022 County board of supervisors spent $36,000 to hire a specialized federal lobbyist to help the town get a permanent air traffic control tower. This was done in 2017 to influence the fiscal year 2018 federal transportation appropriations bill to seek funding to keep the Leesburg remote tower going. The FAA received $7 million for remote towers in the fiscal year 2020 budget. The Colorado Remote Tower system at Northern Colorado Regional Airport has just completed Phase 1 passive testing after losing two years during the pandemic. A mobile ATCT is operational providing airport traffic control 10 hours per day and will be the safety mitigator during Phase 2 testing. Controllers are currently becoming familiar with the remote tower system when not controlling traffic from the mobile ATCT. A large flight training operation relocated to Northern Colorado Regional Airport when the mobile Shahn G. Sederberg/CDOT Aeronautics Division