Salina Airport Authority

Salina Airport Authority, a U.S. local government entity and municipal airport operator based in Salina, Kansas, provides hangar and facility leasing services to the Department of Defense and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (97% of awards) under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations. The authority operates the Salina Regional Airport, a 12,300-foot-runway facility designated as a military airport program worksite that supports rotary and fixed-wing aircraft storage, temporary basing, training operations, and research missions for the Air Force and Army.

Salina Airport Authority's federal footprint splits decisively between contracted facility leasing and federal grant funding for airport infrastructure modernization. On the contracting side, the authority generates recurring hangar and ramp rental revenue through firm fixed-price purchase orders and blanket purchase agreement calls. Representative contract work includes a $30,705 BPA call from Air Combat Command (August 2026) for a 34,000 square foot hangar lease at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada under a single-award BPA ceiling of $307,170 running through March 2029, a $102,481 purchase order from NASA Shared Services Center (May 2022) for use of airport facilities to support military operations and training, and a $25,740 Army Forces Command purchase order (June 2024) for hangar rental at Salina Regional Airport to support federal government operations and training. On the grant side, the authority serves as prime recipient of Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program awards (CFDA 20.106) funding multi-year infrastructure expansion and modernization projects: a $2.127 million grant (September 2025) for terminal parking lot construction completion, a $3.791 million grant (September 2024) for runway reconstruction and rehabilitation, a $6.757 million grant (August 2024) for 14,000 square foot terminal expansion with new arrivals/departures concourse and two gates, a $2.602 million grant (August 2023) for fuel farm facility construction, and two paired grants totaling $1.329 million (July 2024) for acquisition of snow removal equipment (two displacement plows, two carrier vehicles, two deicer spreaders). The authority also receives federal grant sub-awards through the Kansas Adjutant General Department for disaster recovery and building repair, including wind damage remediation and structural repairs to hangars and administrative buildings.

Customer concentration centers on the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command (23 awards, $919 thousand combined potential value) and the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Central Office (15 awards, $1.9 million), which together account for roughly 40% of awards by count but less than 20% of combined potential value because federal grant awards from the Federal Aviation Administration Central Region anchor the dollar ranking while remaining dispersed across many smaller grants. The Department of the Army Forces Command places 16 awards, primarily small purchase orders ($9 thousand to $35 thousand per order) for hangar rental at Salina Regional Airport. The authority holds a dominant position under two General Services Administration basic ordering agreements—GS06B80079 (31 task orders, $3.9 million combined potential value) and GS06B30010 (80 task orders, $638 thousand combined potential value)—which segment hangar and facility leasing across federal agencies nationwide.

Salina Airport Authority's capability portfolio is narrowly specialized. The authority's 61 awards under NAICS 541512 (Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings except Miniwarehouses) and 47 awards under NAICS 561510 (Other Airport Operations) reflect a real estate leasing and airport operations posture rather than construction or service contracting. PSC coding shows 55 awards for lease/rental of office buildings, 20 for lease/rental of other airfield structures, 14 for lease/rental of airport runways and taxiways, and 4 for lease/rental of airport terminals. The authority does not subcontract on federal programs; instead, it receives grant sub-awards through the Kansas Adjutant General Department for disaster recovery funding.

Award activity shows modest recent decline — 13 awards in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 2 in 2026 — though historical data spanning back to 2002 shows 213 total awards with $48.4 million in combined obligated dollars against a $6.8 million combined potential value figure, a pattern indicating that obligated invoiced revenue significantly exceeds current award ceilings due to the age and volume of the contract portfolio. The authority operates exclusively in full-and-open competition; no set-asides apply to any award in the source record.