County Of Plumas

County Of Plumas, doing business as Plumas County Airports, is a county-level airport authority and U.S. local government entity that receives federal airport infrastructure grants from the Federal Aviation Administration as a prime recipient. The organization operates multiple regional airports in northern California (Quincy, Chester, and Beckwourth) and is structured as a division of County Of Plumas.

Plumas County Airports' federal footprint is anchored almost entirely in FAA airport capital grants under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117), both administered through the FAA Western Pacific Region. Recent awards fund final-phase construction and design-phase planning for runway rehabilitation, taxiway resurfacing, wildlife perimeter fencing, fuel farm expansion, snow removal equipment facilities, rotating beacon installation, and airport master plan and layout plan updates. Representative work includes a $1,193,640 formula grant (August 2026) for wildlife perimeter fencing construction at Quincy-area airports, a $1,449,953 project grant (August 2026) for fuel farm expansion at Chester Rogers Airport, and a $712,386 project grant (August 2023) for runway rehabilitation at Chester. The organization also holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the FAA Region 5 Pacific Southwest Region (ceiling $250,000, awarded June 2026, completing December 2030) covering emergency incident support facility use at Chester Rogers Airport.

The FAA Western Pacific Region dominates the customer base, accounting for 22 of 37 total awards in the recent record, with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R5-Pacific Southwest Region contributing 11 awards valued at $490 thousand combined. Federal obligated dollars ($7.2 million) substantially exceed the combined potential value ($548 thousand) because obligated amounts reflect actual spending on multi-year construction and design projects, whereas potential value typically reflects contract ceiling figures. Award frequency has accelerated — one award in 2022 to six in 2025 to five in 2026 — driven by the FAA's push to deploy Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding to regional airports. Activity across the footprint breaks into forestry support work (eight awards) and airport operations and real estate categories; the Forest Service relationship is incidental to the primary FAA airport-grant mission. Plumas County Airports acts as prime recipient on 97% of awards; it received one sub-grant in 2022 from County Of Plumas for economic development purposes.