The Federal Aviation Administration continues its push to deploy funding for airport infrastructure projects, awarding $566.4 million to expand terminals, rehabilitate aprons and runways and make other capital improvements.
The FAA’s latest round of grants, announced Aug. 13, includes 299 grants for airport projects in 47 states.
The grants get their funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which provides a total of $25 billion over five years for improvements to airports and air traffic control facilities.
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The largest grant in the new round is $49.6 million to the Kailua/Kona Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport in Keahole, Hawaii. The funds will help finance track rehabilitation works.
The second largest award is $45.4 million, to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, for structural, seismic and building system improvements to a concourse, according to the FAA.
Also on the list is Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, which will receive $43.3 million for various projects, including building a de-icing runway and taxiway and rebuilding an apron
Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina received $35.5 million to replace a runway.
Kentucky’s Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport received $34.6 million for a 31,049-square-foot expansion at its existing terminal.
The grants come from the IIJA’s Airport Infrastructure Grant Program, which will provide $2.9 billion annually over five years.
The FAA says that so far, it has made about $9 billion from this program available to airports. Just four days earlier, the FAA awarded $636.1 million in non-IIJA funds for other airport improvement projects.
