Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport Board

Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport Board, a U.S. county government entity and public airport authority headquartered in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, acts as a federal grant recipient for runway, hangar, terminal, and apron infrastructure improvements at Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport, funded exclusively through the Federal Aviation Administration.

The airport board operates as a prime grant recipient (100% of awards) with no subcontractor or prime contract role in its federal footprint. All eighteen awards in the source span two FAA divisions — the FAA Southern Region (12 awards) and the FAA main line (6 awards) — reflecting administrative routing of the same regional grant programs. The board receives Project Grants and Formula Grants under two primary federal aviation grant programs: the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117). Recent infrastructure work includes a $2.5 million Project Grant (September 2025, ultimate completion September 2029) to reconstruct 5,000 linear feet of Runway 3/21 and replace runway lighting; a $1.05 million Project Grant (June 2024, ultimate completion June 2028) to construct a new 4,065 square foot terminal building; an $898,255.56 Project Grant (August 2024, ultimate completion August 2028) funding Phase 2 construction of a new 7,680 square foot 3-unit box hangar for aircraft storage and maintenance; a $596,842.11 Project Grant (May 2026, obligation through May 2030) providing final reimbursement for runway lighting reconstruction completed in February 2026; and a $149,930 Formula Grant (August 2024, ultimate completion July 2028) to update the airport master plan and airport layout plan. Earlier awards funded apron strengthening and pandemic-relief operational costs under the American Rescue Plan Act (December 2021) and Coronavirus Relief and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (August 2021).

Activity is episodic rather than steady-state, averaging less than two awards per year over the past five years (one award in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, one in 2026). The combined dollars obligated across all eighteen awards total $7.5 million. One award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The airport board's federal footprint reflects typical local airport authority grant receipt patterns under FAA infrastructure programs serving eligible public-use airports in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems.