Airport Projects

Over the past several years. RFD has invested over $183 million dollars in various projects to enhance the airport's facilities. A majority of dollars spent on these projects were funded through local, state, and federal grants. The completion of these projects has allowed us to position ourselves to accomodate the tremendous growth in passenger and cargo services at our airport.

Our organization is unique in the fact that although we have aggressively completed and invested in many recent capital improvement projects over the past several years - at the same time - we have aggressively paid down our debt. On January 1, 2007 the airport paid off bonds which resulted in a 62% property tax savings for taxpayers.

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Some of our recent expansion projects include:

RFD Parking Expansion
Beltline Road Expansion
Terminal Enhancements
Hangar Development
Addition of Snow Removal Equipment Building
Addition of International Arrival Gate
Remodel/Expansion of Fire Station #7
New UPS Sorting Facility
Addition of International Arrival Gate Jet Bridge (Click Here for info)

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Photo Highlights:

Over 460 additional new parking spots were added providing

a total of over 1,750 spaces for our passengers.

A new baggage carrousel was added in December 2005.

New escalators were added to the Terminal in June 2007.