Minot Worldwide Airport has been awarded $201,755 for upkeep and enhancements from state infrastructure grant allocations, in response to the North Dakota Aeronautics Fee.

On June 15, the fee finalized about $20 million in grants to 180 tasks at 62 public airports all through North Dakota, of which $14 million went to industrial service airports akin to Minot. Minot’s funding included cash for crack sealing, taxi lane rehabilitation and reconstruction, snow elimination tools, rescue and firefighting tools, pavement work and a mower buy.

The aeronautics fee supplied one other $6 million for common aviation airport tasks.

Recipients included:

– Bottineau, $22,645 for airfield seal coat.

– Crosby, $57,300 for runway lighting system reconstruction.

– Fessenden, $34,695 for public hangar/storage constructing concrete ground set up.

– Garrison, $7,850 for safety fence development and $4,409 for mower buy.

– Harvey, $4,500 for hangar design and $22,122 for crack sealing.

– Kenmare, $33,269 for crack sealing.

– Mohall, $13,820 for crack sealing, $6,720 to assemble safety gates and $20,875 to buy snow elimination tractor.

– New City, $24,974 for crack sealing, $9,000 for land acquisition, $105,300 for runway extension design, $6,250 for GPS method upkeep agreements, $1,906 for runway extension feasibility examine and $1,028 for runway extension land survey.

– Parshall, $19,565 to put in safety gate.

– Rolla, $15,165 for crack sealing, $2,079 to put in runway and taxiway reflectors and restore signage, $1,247 to restore and change climate radio and $2,577 to replace gas system card reader.

– Rugby, $49,341 for terminal/snow elimination tools constructing development and $3,948 for electrical system substitute.

– Stanley, $63,125 for airport format plan replace and narrative report.

– Tioga, $30,004 for taxiway edge gentle set up and $1,603 for taxilane aprons reconstruction.

– Turtle Lake, $56,101 to assemble terminal constructing.

– Watford Metropolis, $8,333 for snow elimination tools constructing design and $11,664 for crack sealing.

– Westhope, $1.4 million for airfield pavement rehabilitation.

Of the entire grant allocation, $10 million was supplied by means of funding that was made obtainable for the primary time by means of the Airport Infrastructure Fund. This fund was established as part of the “Operation Prairie Canine” invoice that was handed in the course of the 2019 legislative session to help with the upkeep and growth of the 89 public-use airports all through North Dakota. The opposite $10 million allocation was made doable from the Aeronautics Fee’s Particular Fund, whose main income supply is state tax collections on aviation gas and plane gross sales.

These state grant allocations additionally match and leverage federal grant {dollars}. It’s estimated that all through the 2023 development cycle, North Dakota airport tasks will obtain about $65 million {dollars} by means of these completely different federal funding sources, which all require matching participation.