Paso Robles Municipal Airport

Paso Robles Municipal Airport, a local government airport authority in Paso Robles, California, operates as a recipient of federal infrastructure grants from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Agriculture, with no prime contract awards prior to August 2025 and no subcontract relationships. The airport received its first federal contract award on August 3, 2025 — a $77.5 thousand land rental services purchase order from the Department of Agriculture's Region 5 Pacific Southwest Region, completing September 2, 2025 — following more than a decade of FAA infrastructure grant activity that has supplied approximately $2.5 million in cumulative federal funding for airfield improvements.

As a U.S. local government entity, Paso Robles Municipal Airport operates exclusively under its own federal award capacity; it does not compete for or hold seats on federal vehicles such as GWACs, IDIQs, or BPAs, and it does not subcontract to other vendors. Its federal customer base consists of two agencies: the Federal Aviation Administration's Western Pacific Region (9 awards) and the broader FAA (7 awards), which together account for 16 of the airport's 17 recent federal awards, and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5 Pacific Southwest Region (1 award, the $77.5 thousand contract). The airport's grant work is concentrated in the FAA's Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106 and 20.117) and includes runway and taxiway rehabilitation, airfield lighting reconstruction, pavement management studies, and airport master plan updates.

Recent grant awards total $2.428 million in combined potential value and extend through 2030. A $589.567 thousand FAA project grant awarded August 27, 2024, funds an updated airport master plan, airport layout plan drawing set, spaceport plan, aeronautical survey, and sustainable master plan update, completing August 26, 2028. A $297.460 thousand FAA project grant awarded March 5, 2026, supports design-phase work for taxiway rehabilitation of 1,900 linear feet, completing March 4, 2030. Earlier grants from July 2021 fund $1.205750 million in taxiway lighting reconstruction, airfield guidance sign installation, and apron lighting reconstruction, completing July 27, 2025. A July 2023 formula grant of $134 thousand supports a pavement management study, and an August 2021 project grant provides pandemic relief funding for operations, personnel, cleaning, and sanitization under the American Rescue Plan Act. One award (the August 2025 land rental contract) reaches completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in the near term.