Batesville Regional Airport

Batesville Regional Airport, a municipal airport authority in Batesville, Arkansas, is a federal grant recipient under the Federal Aviation Administration's airport development and pandemic-relief programs, not a federal contractor or subcontractor. The airport operates as a public-use facility within the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems and receives 100% of its recorded federal awards as prime grant recipient (11 total awards, $6.2 million combined dollars obligated).

The airport's federal footprint concentrates entirely with the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration Southwestern Region, which has issued ten of the eleven awards on record. Recent activity encompasses runway and taxiway rehabilitation, runway visual guidance system reconstruction, and pandemic-relief funding. The airport received $2.348 million on July 16, 2026, under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116) for the final construction phase of runway and taxiway rehabilitation, including 6,002 feet of Runway 8/26 and 6,100 feet of Taxiway A with completion targeted for July 15, 2030. A companion award of $1,065,836 under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117) on July 14, 2026, funds an associated portion of the same final construction phase. Earlier, the airport received $279,635 on September 12, 2025, under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) for Phase 1 design services for the same runway and taxiway projects, with ultimate completion set for September 11, 2029. A separate $483,840 award from August 29, 2024, under CFDA 20.106 supported reconstruction of the precision approach path indicator and approach lighting system for Runway 08/26, completing August 28, 2028. The airport also received pandemic-relief funding of undisclosed amount under the American Rescue Plan Act in November 2021, designated for operations, personnel, cleaning, sanitization, and debt service through November 28, 2025.

Activity has resumed after a three-year gap (2022–2023); two awards landed in 2026 following one in 2025 and one in 2024. The airport is a government entity recipient, not a vendor competing for contracts or operating as a subcontractor to primes.