$1.6M Grant Will Help Cape Cod Gateway Airport Make Needed Improvements

HYANNIS, MA — The largest airport on the peninsula, Cape Cod Gateway, has received a $1.6 million grant to upgrade its apron.

The funding from the Federal Aviation Administration is one of seven recent Massachusetts awards, according to data published Tuesday by the agency.

Attempts to reach the airport for more information were not immediately successful. But the FAA says the money will help "rehabilitate" the apron – basically, a plane parking lot next to the terminal.

Another airport on the Cape, Chatham Municipal, will receive up to $610,000 to acquire land that may help with the approach of planes.

Nantucket Memorial Airport was awarded $1 million for apron work of its own. Other Massachusetts airports receiving the FAA grants are in Bedford, Orange, Pittsfield and Plymouth.

In total, the Bay State is getting roughly $15 million from the feds to improve runways, taxiways, aprons, hangars and other facilities.

More than half that amount – $8 million – will go toward runway reconstruction at Plymouth Municipal Airport, the data shows.

The FAA Airport Improvement Program regularly makes grants to the country’s air transportation centers, which depend on them to make needed improvements. So far this year, the program has made only three awards in Massachusetts, totaling less than $1 million.

In 2025, AIP grants nationwide added up to $1.7 billion for more than 250 public-use airports.

In 2024, more than 25,000 passengers came through Cape Cod Gateway Airport. It was the site last week of an accident in which a small private plane overturned. The pilot, the only person aboard, walked away with minor injuries.

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