Nine Alabama airports are set to share $2 million in grant funding from the Alabama Department of Transportation, according to a report published Wednesday, June 18, by WSFA.
ALDOT didn’t immediately release a full breakdown of which airports would receive money or how much each would get — details that often come in a separate project announcement.
The grants are earmarked for improvements at each facility, though the specific work planned at each airport wasn’t spelled out in the initial report. Two million dollars split nine ways averages out to roughly $222,000 per airport, though individual awards rarely divide that cleanly.
ALDOT oversees the state’s aeronautics program and regularly distributes federal and state dollars to smaller general-aviation airports that don’t have the passenger traffic to fund major capital work on their own. Many of Alabama’s regional airports rely heavily on those awards to keep runways, taxiways, and terminal buildings up to federal standards.
WSFA didn’t name the nine airports in the version of the story available Wednesday. A full list of recipients and project scopes had not been published as of that afternoon.
Reported by WSFA. Read the original report.
