{"id":1023,"date":"2013-02-28T19:38:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:32:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:32:55","slug":"paul-bradbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/paul-bradbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 50: Airport Director at Portland International Jetport Paul Bradbury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 50
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, February 23
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Paul Bradbury
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Paul Bradbury is Portland\u2019s International Jetport\u00a0<\/a>airport director. Bradbury has been employed by the city in several positions at the Jetport since August 1992 and has managed all landside facilities at the Jetport since 1994.\u00a0 He was appointed to his current position of Airport Director in 2008.\u00a0 In this position, he is responsible for the overall management, operations and planning for the Jetport.\u00a0 \u00a0The two also discussed Bradbury’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, the nearly 1.7 million passengers fly in and out of the Jetport annually and the Jetports visit from Air Force One.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) is joined in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio by Portland International Jetport Airport Director, Paul Bradbury (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Under Bradbury\u2019s leadership, the Jetport has undergone major renovations.\u00a0 Such improvements include the new terminal building, which received LEED Gold certification, (80% of construction debris recycled, 37% of materials in terminal expansion have recycled content, preferred lot parking for hybrids), only the second terminal project in the nation to achieve this level.\u00a0 Other improvements include combining a new aircraft de-icing fluid capture system and the largest airport geothermal heating and cooling system.<\/p>\n

Nearly 1.7 million passengers fly in and out of the Jetport annually, with more than 200 passengers using the Jetport each day to connect to and from international destinations (Asia, the Carribbean, Europe and Canada). PWM, the code given to the Jetport by the FAA, stands for Portland Westbrook Municipal.\u00a0 In the earliest days of aviation, pilots would navigate using a series of lights.\u00a0 The last set of lights before the runway was located in Westbrook.<\/p>\n

Bradbury graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.\u00a0 He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Maine.\u00a0 Bradbury is an avid runner and triathlete who has completed the Ironman at Lake Placid three times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Airport Director at Portland International Jetport, Paul Bradbury sat down with TideSmart Talk with Stevoe show host Steve Woods to discuss the Jetport’s renovations under Bradbury’s leadership. He was appointed to his current position of Airport Director in 2008. In this position, he is responsible for the overall management, operations and planning for the Jetport. The two also discussed Bradbury’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, the nearly 1.7 million passengers fly in and out of the Jetport annually and the Jetports visit from Air Force One. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}