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Updated: September 8, 2025

$14M will fund airport upgrades across Maine

Jetport exterior File photo / Jim Neuger The Portland International Jetport will use $11.3 million in new federal funding for projects including a terminal expansion.
By Renee Cordes

A total of $14 million in federal funding has been cleared for take-off to fund upgrades at airports across Maine, led by the Portland International Jetport in the state’s largest city.

The Jetport will receive $11.3 million of the total to expand existing terminal space by 7,200 square feet, purchase snow removal equipment for two replacement carrier vehicles and replace several passenger loading bridges.

Paul Bradbury standing inside the Portland International Jetport
File Photo / Jim Neuger
Paul Bradbury

Paul Bradbury, director of the Portland International Jetport, elaborated on the plans.

“This funding is replacing 25-plus year old passenger boarding bridges at gates 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, providing two new 18-foot front mounted broom airfield snow removal trucks, and additional funding for the recently completed gates 11, 12 and 14 expansion of the terminal building,” he explained in an email to Mainebiz.

He also said that the new passenger boarding bridges at gates 3-7 will be equipped with electric heat pump "pre-conditioned air" units to heat and cool the aircraft parked at these gates.  

That will eliminate the need to operate diesel-operated pre-conditioned air units currently in use by the airlines at the Jetport, he said.

Bar Harbor, Wiscasset

Also in line to receive funding are Hancock County/Bar Harbor Airport, which will receive $1.14 million to rehabilitate 165 feet of existing service roads and replace windows in the terminal; and Wiscasset Municipal Airport, which will receive $585,000 to reconstruct 19,505 square yards of pavement.

In addition, various unnamed airport will share $1.2 million to install automated weather-observing systems.

The funding comes from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Airport Infrastructure Grants program and the Airport Improvement Program.

“Maine’s airports are vital pieces of our state’s transportation network that promote job creation and economic development,” U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said in the funding announcement. “These significant investments will allow airports across Maine to make much-needed improvements to their infrastructure.”

Collins, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Maine’s longest-serving member of Congress, is running for reelection in 2026.
 

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