More than $5 million in federal funds is coming to Bend and Redmond airports for infrastructure improvements.
Bend Municipal Airport is receiving $3.75 million and Redmond Municipal Airport is getting $1,291,810 from the FAA through the Airport Improvement Program, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced.
The money is a grant program that funds airport infrastructure projects. These awards will go toward pavement, runway, taxiway improvements, and safety area construction, the senators said.
$17 million in all is coming to Oregon airports.
- Portland International Airport: $7,766,449
- Bend Municipal Airport: $3,750,000
- Roseburg Regional Airport: $2,120,951
- Roberts Field in Redmond: $1,291,810
- Siletz Bay State Airport: $1,169,434
- McNary Field in Salem: $300,000
- Grants Pass Airport: $274,180
- Cottage Grove State Airport: $264,118
- Myrtle Creek Municipal Airport: $180,000
- Ken Jernstedt Airfield in Hood River: $140,000
The Oregon Department of Aviation is also receiving $107,500 to update an existing state airport system plan.
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