Regional Airports Program – Round 2

Overview

The Regional Airports Program provides grants to improve the safety and accessibility of airports and aerodromes in regional areas of Australia. It will support critical air infrastructure that will:  improve the safety of aircraft, operators and passengers using regional airports or aerodromes facilitate improved delivery of essential goods and services such as food supplies, health care and passenger air services improve the connectivity of Australia’s regions to domestic and global market opportunities meet the operational requirements of aeromedical and other emergency services in the region There is a total of $58.8 million available for this grant round. Grants will be from $20,000 to $5 million. The grant amount will be up to 50 per cent of eligible project costs (grant percentage), unless: where the applicant (you) and a third party (could include State, Territory or local government or other non-government funding) are both contributing to eligible project costs, the grant amount will be up to 33.3 per cent of eligible project costs or where the applicant meets the Small Project criteria in section 3.2 of the grant opportunity guidelines as an Australian local government agency or body or an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation (as defined in the Glossary at section 14) and the total project cost is equal to or less than $300,000, the grant amount will be up to 100 per cent of eligible costs.