Members of the Board represent specific statewide aviation interests.
Appointed by the Governor to serve three-year terms, the Colorado Aeronautical Board is designed as representative of both governmental and aviation-interest constituencies.
Each of Colorado's airports offer a unique set benefits for each of its surrounding communities including emergency medical access, employment and economic generation.
Since legislation in 1991 channeled aviation fuel taxes to "aviation purposes", the CDOT - Division of Aeronautics has reimbursed 65% of those taxes back into the airports - of - origin in the form of regular entitlement funds.
Senate Bill 49 continuously appropriates fuel tax dollars into the Colorado Aviation Fund.