FAA Aviation Research Grants Program

Awards $0 – $6,000,000 per recipient for nonprofit, nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public agency, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, closing Sep 7, 2027.

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FAA Aviation Research Grants Program awards $0 – $6,000,000 per recipient, open to nonprofit, nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public agency, public and state controlled institutions of higher…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$6,000,000
Award floor is $0; Award ceiling is $6,000,000
Award floor
$0
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Sep 7, 2027
Deadline type
unknown
Opens
Sep 8, 2020
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Nonprofit · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Private institutions of higher education · Public Agency · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$6,000,000

Source wording: “Award floor is $0; Award ceiling is $6,000,000

Who can apply?

industry

Aviation Research, Civil Aviation, Commercial Space Transportation, Transportation

Source field: industries
use

Aircraft Safety Technology, Airports, Aviation Weather, Capacity and Air Traffic Control Technology, Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance, Human Factors and Aviation Medicine, Systems Science/Operations Research

Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Description states colleges, universities, and other non-profit research institutions under Section 501(c)(3) are eligible

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Sep 7, 2027371 daysunknown deadline

Response date listed as Sep 07, 2027; appears to be a continuing program with rolling submissions

What can the money be used for?

Capacity and Air Traffic Control TechnologyCommunications, Navigation, and SurveillanceAviation WeatherAirportsAircraft Safety TechnologyHuman Factors and Aviation MedicineSystems Science/Operations Research

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No
Labelled field indicates: cost sharing = false

Who has received this funding?

No award records yet

We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.

Common questions

Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.

How much can one applicant receive?
$0 – $6,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “Award floor is $0; Award ceiling is $6,000,000”.
When is the application deadline?
Sep 7, 2027. Response date listed as Sep 07, 2027; appears to be a continuing program with rolling submissions
Who is eligible to apply?
Nonprofit, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public Agency, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
What can the funding be used for?
Capacity and Air Traffic Control Technology, Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance, Aviation Weather, Airports, Aircraft Safety Technology, Human Factors and Aviation Medicine, Systems Science/Operations Research, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Labelled field indicates: cost sharing = false
Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-01
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-01

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.