Rugby Municipal Airport Authority

Rugby Municipal Airport Authority, a U.S. government entity and municipal airport authority headquartered in Rugby, North Dakota, receives federal grants from the Federal Aviation Administration under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116 and 20.106) to fund runway, taxiway, and apron pavement rehabilitation, terminal building construction, and snow removal equipment storage facility projects. The authority operates exclusively as a grant recipient, not as a contractor, and does not pursue federal contracts or serve as a subcontractor.

Rugby Municipal Airport's federal footprint centers entirely on the FAA's Airport Improvement Program and pandemic-relief assistance, with sixteen awards spanning the past five years. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Great Lakes Region has issued all sixteen awards (100% of the authority's federal grant activity). Recent high-value grants include a $1,384,210.53 project grant awarded June 13, 2026, funding the final construction phase of Runway 12/30 and Taxiway A rehabilitation (completion date June 12, 2030), and a $105,000 project grant awarded July 25, 2025, for Phase 1 design services supporting comprehensive pavement rehabilitation across the apron, runway, and taxilane (completion date July 24, 2029). The authority also received two project and formula grants in July 2023 for a 1,600-square-foot snow removal equipment building (one for design, one for final-phase construction, both completing July 11, 2027), a project grant in September 2022 for design of both the snow removal building and a 500-square-foot terminal building (completion September 13, 2026), and pandemic-relief grants in February 2022 and July 2021 for operations and personnel costs under the American Rescue Plan Act and Coronavirus Relief and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act.

Activity has been episodic — one grant per year in 2021, 2022, 2025, and 2026, with a cluster of three awards in 2023 — for a combined obligation of $4.8 million across all sixteen awards. Four awards have ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, creating a refresh cycle for the authority's active grant portfolio. The authority's grant work is strictly capital and operational infrastructure; the organization does not execute federal contracts and does not function as a supplier to federal agencies, contractors, or grant recipients.