Closed Grant Opportunity View - GO7145

The Regional Airports Program – Round 4 provides grants to improve the safety, accessibility and climate resilience 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
• assist air services to transition to net zero aviation technology

There is a total of up to $25 million available for this grant round.

Grants will be from $20,000 to $7.5 million.

The grant amount will be up to 50% of eligible project costs (grant percentage), unless the applicant (you) and a third party (this could include state, territory or local government or other non-government funding) are both contributing to eligible project costs, the grant amount for this opportunity may be reduced to a third of eligible project costs.

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• are an owner and/or operator of an existing aerodrome or airport in a regional area in Australia

and are one of the following entities:

• an entity, incorporated in Australia
• an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth)
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
• an Australian local government agency or body as defined in section 14 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines
• an Australian state/territory government agency or body
• a corporate Commonwealth entity.

State agencies or other eligible entities may apply on behalf of aerodrome owners/operators. In such cases, the state agency or other eligible entity will be the lead applicant in a joint application and will be wholly responsible for the project, including administering, reporting and acquitting all project expenditure. Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth.

We can only accept applications where:

• your aerodrome is identified as Inner Regional or Outer Regional as defined by the 2021 Australian Statistical Geographic Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Area (check your aerodrome location is Inner Regional or Outer Regional using nationalmap.gov.au)
• your aerodrome or airport’s passenger throughput was below 250,000 passengers (from all flight types) in 2019
• you can provide evidence from your board or council (or chief executive officer (CEO) or equivalent if there is no board) that the project is supported by the applicant organisation, and that the organisation is willing to accept responsibility to complete the project and meet the costs of the project not covered by grant funding.

Further eligibility criteria can be found in the grant opportunity guidelines.

$25,000,000.00

From $20,000.00 to $7,500,000.00

This grant opportunity opens for applications on 8 October 2024.

To apply, go to: www.business.gov.au/rap-round4

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