Airport Authority District NO. 1 Calcasieu Parish

Airport Authority District NO. 1 Calcasieu Parish, doing business as Lake Charles Regional Airport, is a U.S. local government entity and airport authority that serves as a federal grant recipient for airfield infrastructure and terminal facility improvements, operating exclusively as a prime recipient (99% of recent awards) with no subcontracting footprint.

The entity is headquartered in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and operates as a nonhub primary commercial airport serving the Southwest Louisiana region. Its federal funding footprint is dominated by Federal Aviation Administration project grants under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117), with recent awards spanning airfield reconstruction, terminal access road rebuilding, parking lot expansion, passenger boarding bridge replacement, and airfield equipment acquisition. Representative recent work includes a $969,632.63 Airport Improvement Program grant awarded June 26, 2026, to reconstruct airfield signage and markings reaching end of useful life; a $1,266,286.32 Airport Infrastructure Grants award on the same date for Phase 2 reconstruction of 1,277 feet of terminal access road; and a $2,842,151.58 Airport Improvement Program grant awarded August 6, 2025, for construction of a new non-revenue terminal parking lot and reconstruction of terminal and general aviation access roads. Earlier grants funded a $2,631,578.95 replacement of two passenger boarding bridges (awarded November 2022), a $2.1 million terminal arrival canopy construction (awarded June 2022), and COVID-19 relief grants for a 6,522 square foot maintenance shop building and hangar reconstructions (awarded March 2023). The entity also received American Rescue Plan Act funding for airport concessionaire economic relief (awarded January 2022).

Customer concentration across the federal footprint is fragmented. The top five funding entities by award count account for 49% of recent awards, with the FAA Southwestern Region leading at 27 awards (primarily grant recipients rather than procurements), followed by the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Central Office Office of Leasing at 26 awards valued at $6.6 million combined potential. By potential value, GSA and the Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration dominate at $6.6 million and $1.3 million respectively, reflecting a portfolio composition split between FAA grants for airport operations and GSA building leases for facility use. The airport holds two basic ordering agreements on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule—GS07B15212 (78 task orders, $3.2 million combined potential value) and GS07B16636 (22 task orders, $6 million combined potential value)—which align with its real-property lease footprint rather than airport operational work. The entity's NAICS concentration is weighted heavily toward Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (103 awards), reflecting its role as lessor of airport facilities rather than purchaser of goods or services. Activity has declined from five awards in 2022 to two in 2026; one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Across all awards, combined dollars obligated ($62.1 million) exceed combined potential value ($12.1 million) by more than five times, indicating mature, largely closed-out grant awards spanning two decades of federal airport infrastructure investment.