The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (WMAA) will receive nearly $7 million in federal funding to support taxiway reconstructions at Dulles International Airport.
The $6.8 million in funding represents the second-largest amount among 18 aviation-related projects approved statewide by the Federal Aviation Administration. Funding comes from a $25 billion appropriation in the 2021 Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act.
“These investments will help ensure that our airports are a safe, reliable engine of connectivity and economic growth for travelers and communities around the commonwealth,” Virginia Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner said in a joint statement.
“We’re going to keep doing all that we can to bring additional infrastructure investments to Virginia,” they said.
In July, MWAA’s board of directors adopted a new master plan for Dulles that calls for expanding facilities to ultimately accommodate 90 million annual passengers — more than three times the current total. In addition to more terminal and gate facilities, the plan anticipates the addition of another runway around the middle of this century.
MWAA spokesman Robert Yingling told FFXnow that the newly announced federal funding will be allocated toward an ongoing $13 million airport project to reconstruct portions of two taxi lanes and a taxiway at Dulles.
“They represent upgrades to existing airfield facilities, as opposed to additional infrastructure envisioned in the Master Plan,” he said.
Construction on a new 14-gate concourse for Dulles is also still underway, on track for a projected finish in 2026.
Other funding for Virginia airports included in the latest round of federal funding:
- $7,237,709 to install new lighting and shift the taxiway in accordance with current standards at Winchester Regional Airport
- $5,225,950 to rehabilitate the runway at Virginia Highlands Airport
- $4,930,500 to rehabilitate the runway at Leesburg Executive Airport
- $4,706,743 to rehabilitate the General Aviation Apron pavement at Newport News-Williamsburg Airport
- $4,335,800 to shift the taxiway in accordance with current standards at Blue Ridge Airport
- $3,789,800 to construct a new hangar for aircraft storage, extend the runways and update the taxiways at Twin County Airport
- $3,100,001 to extend the runway at Richmond Executive/Chesterfield County Airport
- $1,461,000 to construct a new taxiway and install new lighting at Accomack County Airport
- $1,281,865 to develop a hangar for aircraft storage and replace and rehabilitate runway and taxiway lighting at Mountain Empire Airport
- $1,080,200 to expand an existing fuel farm at Hampton Roads Executive Airport
- $821,331 to construct a new hangar for aircraft storage at Danville Regional Airport
- $500,000 to improve the aircraft apron at Richmond International Airport
- $444,000 to construct a new hangar for aircraft storage at Emporia-Greensville Regional Airport
- $380,100 to construct a new hangar for aircraft storage at Tazewell County Airport
- $361,000 to update the layout plan at Suffolk Executive Airport
- $266,000 to rehabilitate taxiways at Front Royal-Warren County Airport
No projects at Reagan National Airport were included in the latest round.
The new funding follows announcements of $21 million in federal funding for Virginia airports in July, $17 million earlier in 2025 and $103 million in two announcements made in late 2024.
