Practically $50 million in state funding is coming to 36 public-use airports throughout New York state as a part of the Aviation Capital Grant Program.
The funding can be used for infrastructure enhancements to reinforce security and advance enterprise improvement and sustainability, based on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s workplace.
Officers say this consists of the development and rehabilitation of recent and present hangars, electrification and carbon discount applications, new and upgraded snow elimination gear and up to date safety methods.
“A robust funding in our airports is a significant funding in our communities and the way forward for the Empire State,” Hochul mentioned in a press release. “Airports are gateways to communities massive and small throughout New York State and these grants will function a launchpad to springboard many of those services into the twenty first century and past.”
“This funding builds upon the almost $1 billion nationwide funding made by our federal companions in authorities earlier this yr, and won’t solely enhance present airport infrastructure, however the total expertise and accessibility of passengers who typically make the most of these hubs throughout New York,” State Senator Tim Kennedy mentioned in a press release. “By way of focused investments like these, we’re actively serving to to fulfill the elevated demand for air journey, creating alternatives inside our workforce, and boosting our native economies.”
The airports receiving the funding embody:
Capital District – $8.8 million
- Albany Worldwide Airport – $1.6 million
- Columbia County Airport – $2.4 million
- Saratoga County Airport – $1.5 million
- Schenectady County Airport – $0.9 million
- South Albany Airport – $2.5 million
Central New York – $5.5 million
- Cortland County Airport, Chase Area – $2.5 million
- Oswego County Airport – $0.5 million
- Syracuse Regional Airport – $2.5 million
Finger Lakes – $8.6 million
- Finger Lakes Regional Airport – $2.3 million
- Frederick Douglass Better Rochester Regional Airport – $1.1 million
- Genesee County Airport – $2.5 million
- Penn Yan Airport – $2.3 million
- Williamson-Sodus Airport – $0.4 million
Lengthy Island – $1 million
- Republic Airport – $1 million
Mid-Hudson – $1.5 million
- Hudson Valley Regional Airport – $0.2 million
- Orange County Airport – $1.4 million
- Mohawk Valley – $4.5 million
- Fulton County Airport – $2 million
- Griffiss Worldwide Airport – $2.5 million
North Nation – $7.7 million
- Adirondack Regional Airport – $1 million
- Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport – $2.3 million
- Massena Worldwide Airport – $0.1 million
- Piseco Airport – $0.1 million
- Plattsburgh Worldwide Airport – $2.0 million
- Watertown Worldwide Airport – $2.1 million
Southern Tier – $5.1 million
- Corning-Painted Submit Airport – $0.3 million
- Elmira Corning Regional Airport – $0.8 million
- Better Binghamton Airport/Edwin A. Hyperlink Area – $0.8 million
- Ithaca Tompkins Worldwide Airport – $1.4 million
- Lt. Warren E. Eaton Airport – $0.6 million
- Tri-Cities Airport – $1.2 million
Western New York – $6.3 million
- Buffalo Niagara Worldwide Airport – $2.2 million
- Chautauqua County Dunkirk Airport – $0.5 million
- Chautauqua County Jamestown Airport – $1.1 million
- Niagara Falls Worldwide Airport – $1.3 million
- LeRoy Airport – $0.8 million
- Wellsville Municipal Airport – $0.5 million
A full funding breakdown will be discovered on the governor’s web site.
