Fulton County Airport Authority

Fulton County Airport Authority, a U.S. local government entity and county airport authority headquartered in Rochester, Indiana, acts as the prime recipient of federal grant funding for airport infrastructure improvements under the Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Improvement Program and related programs (CFDA 20.106, 20.117). The authority does not hold federal contracts and operates exclusively in a grant-recipient capacity with no subcontract activity across its federal footprint.

The authority's entire federal grant portfolio concentrates with the FAA's Great Lakes Region, which has awarded twenty grants totaling $6.4 million obligated across the past five years. Fourteen awards flow from the FAA Great Lakes Region directly, with six from the FAA national office. Work centers on three categories of airport infrastructure: runway rehabilitation, aircraft hangar construction, and runway lighting and guidance system modernization at Rochester Municipal Airport. Representative projects include a $2.566 million grant awarded September 18, 2025, under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) to fund the final construction phase of runway rehabilitation on 5,001 feet of existing Runway 11/19; a $284,162 grant awarded April 8, 2024, under the Airport Improvement Program for partial reimbursement of a new 6,400 square-foot aircraft hangar completed in December 2023; and a $114,737 grant awarded March 7, 2026, under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117) for final-phase hangar construction reimbursement. Earlier work included design phases of runway lighting reconstruction and installation of precision approach path indicators funded through a $105,740 grant awarded July 20, 2022, and economic relief funding of unspecified magnitude awarded August 2, 2021, under the American Rescue Plan Act to cover operational costs, personnel, and pandemic-response activities.

Award activity has remained modest and episodic—two awards in 2024, two in 2025, one in 2026—with no recompete cliff signals in the grant pipeline. The authority operates as a pure grant recipient with no federal contract vehicles, no prime contractor relationships, and no subcontract engagement across federal programs.