City Of Hillsboro

Hillsboro Municipal Airport Authority, a division of the City of Hillsboro operating as a U.S. local government entity, receives federal grants from the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fund airport infrastructure development and expansion in North Dakota, functioning as a prime recipient across all of its recent federal award activity.

The Airport Authority operates Hillsboro Municipal Airport and has received twenty federal grants since 2005, with combined obligations of $15.6 million. All awards are prime grants; the entity does not subcontract. Activity has been episodic — two awards in 2021, one in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with the most recent grants awarded on August 11, 2026. The FAA Great Lakes Region, which administers the funding, accounts for all fourteen grants identifiable by that regional designation within the portfolio. Six additional awards come from the FAA's national program office without explicit regional attribution. The two funding streams (regional and national) together represent 100% of recent award count.

The Airport Authority's recent work centers on a phased hangar construction project and associated airfield improvements. In August 2026, the FAA awarded two grants for hangar construction under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117) and Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116): $346,321.05 to construct 2,826 square feet of hangar space as Phase 3 of an 11,250 square-foot aircraft storage facility (ultimate completion August 10, 2030), and $473,684.21 for Phase 2 construction of 5,523 square feet of the same hangar complex (ultimate completion August 10, 2030, with fiscal year 2027 and 2028 funding subject to appropriations). A September 2025 project grant funded the design phase of the hangar. Earlier work includes a July 2023 grant of $336,383.33 to construct a 324-foot taxilane connecting hangar facilities (ultimate completion July 4, 2027), a July 2023 grant of $2.43 million to reconstruct 13,750 square yards of apron and construct a 375-foot taxilane (ultimate completion July 4, 2027), and a September 2022 project grant for design of apron reconstruction, taxilane construction, and 1,300 feet of drainage improvements to meet FAA airfield design standards (ultimate completion September 11, 2026). The hangar and taxilane projects are designed to increase airport self-sustainability by generating revenue through aircraft storage leasing and improving operational connectivity between hangars and apron areas.