Is matching funding required?

No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

FederalClosing soonFixed dateAirport Improvement Program Discretionary Grants

FY 2027 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program

Award ceiling: $25,000 – $55,000,000
Closes: Oct 19, 2026
Last verified: 2026-09-25

Awards $25,000 – $55,000,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), special district governments, state governments, closing Oct 19, 2026.

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City or township governmentsCounty governmentsOthers (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Special district governmentsState governmentsTransportation

In one sentence

FY 2027 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program awards $25,000 – $55,000,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, others (see text field entitled "additional information on…

Record fields

Program pool (total): Not stated
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project): $55,000,000
Award floor: $25,000
Typical award: Not confirmed
Deadline: Oct 19, 2026
Deadline type: Fixed date
Opens: Sep 24, 2026
Status: Closing soon
Eligible entities: City or township governments · County governments · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · Special district governments · State governments
Geography: Not stated
Matching funds: No
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Application effort: Not confirmed
Use of funds: sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towers · acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment · construct a remote tower certified by the FAA
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

$55,000,000

Who can apply?

level

federal

Derived from the source that published this record

entity

City or township governments, County governments, Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Special district governments, State governments

Source field: entity types

industry

Transportation

Source field: industries

use

acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment, construct a remote tower certified by the FAA, sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towers

Source field: use of funds

size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit

clause text

See the link to the FY 2027 NOFO for eligibility information. Eligible applicants are those airport sponsors approved in the FAA’s Contract Tower Program or Contract Tower Cost Share Program as defined in 49 U.S.C. § 47124, and normally…

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When does it close?

Oct 19, 202624 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

3 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.

sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towersacquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipmentconstruct a remote tower certified by the FAA

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?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.

Application effort: Not confirmed
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Matching funds: No

What comparable notices state

13 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Transportation, 13 of 19 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

25th percentile$5,000,000
Median$10,000,000
75th percentile$20,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

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

How much can one applicant receive?: $25,000 – $55,000,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?: Oct 19, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?: City or township governments, County governments, Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Special district governments, State governments.
What can the funding be used for?: sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towers, acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment, construct a remote tower certified by the FAA, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?: No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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Provenance

Source pagegrants.gov

Retrieved2026-09-25

MethodAutomated check

First seen2026-09-25

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