QUINTER, Kan. (AP) — The rural town of Quinter in Gove County is set to begin construction on a new airport to improve access to emergency air transport services.

According to Carol Kinderknecht, executive director of the Gove County Healthcare Endowment Foundation, the foundation hopes ground can be broken for the airport’s construction this fall. Kinderknecht said the foundation hopes a concrete runway that’s 4,000 to 5,000 feet long can be installed in the spring.

The Wichita Eagle reports the town of about 900 people, which is northwest of Wichita, received about $2 million in July from the state transportation department’s Kansas Airport Improvement Program.

Kinderknecht said Quinter has an airstrip, but air ambulance services cannot land on it.

According to the foundation, the airport will be a public-use airport so that other aircraft may fly into it.