{"id":13055,"date":"2019-06-10T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13055"},"modified":"2019-06-10T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:37:10","slug":"north-dakota-awards-3-5-million-for-airport-infrastructure-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-dakota\/north-dakota-awards-3-5-million-for-airport-infrastructure-grants\/%20","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Awards $3.5 Million for Airport Infrastructure Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On June 6<sup>th<\/sup> the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission finalized approximately $3.5 million in infrastructure grant allocations to multiple public airports throughout the state.\u00c2\u00a0 There were 165 individual projects that received grant awards at 58 different public-use airports throughout the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the Aeronautics Commission also provided\naviation education grants as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$7,930 to the Dakota\n     Territory Air Museum in Minot for equipment to promote Unmanned Aerial\n     System technology programming to K-12 students.<\/li><li>$11,895 to the Missouri\n     River Area Career and Technical Center to help purchase aviation simulator\n     and computer equipment to enhance rural North Dakota high school aviation\n     programs.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The revenue source for these grants is derived primarily\nfrom state tax collections on aviation fuel and aircraft sales. A majority of\nthese grant allocations will also match federal grants that are anticipated to\nbe received for 2019 airport projects.&nbsp;\nThese state grants are critical in maintaining the needed infrastructure\nto support the aviation industry, which is a major contributor to the state\u2019s\neconomy.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission completed a\nresearch project to estimate the annual economic impact that the 89 public-use\nairports provide to North Dakota.&nbsp; The\nresearch concluded that the airports have an estimated annual economic impact\nof $1.6 billion dollars on the state\u2019s overall economy while providing support\nfor over 12,200 jobs. More information on this study is available from the\nAeronautics Commission website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aero.nd.gov\">www.aero.nd.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe state of North Dakota fully understands the benefits of\nsmart and efficient infrastructure as well as the economic impact and heightened\nstandard of living that our airports provide to their communities. These airport\ngrant allocations will go a long way to help leverage federal funding for high\npriority airport projects within North Dakota while at the same time ensuring\nthat our statewide aviation system is being maintained.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aviation education grants will also greatly help to\nsupport K-12 aviation education and STEM programming which is critically\nimportant during a time when the aviation industry throughout the country is experiencing\nshortages in pilots and many other aviation-related careers.&nbsp; The state is excited to partner with our\npublic airports, schools, and aviation museums to provide support and enhance\nopportunities for the aviation industry throughout North Dakota,\u201d stated Kyle\nWanner, the Executive Director of the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6th the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission finalized approximately $3.5 million in infrastructure grant allocations to multiple public airports throughout the state.\u00c2\u00a0 There were 165 individual projects that received grant awards at 58 different public-use airports throughout the state. Additionally, the Aeronautics Commission also provided aviation education grants as follows: $7,930 to the Dakota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-dakota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13056,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13055\/revisions\/13056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}