List of airports in Massachusetts
This is a list of airports in Massachusetts (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
As of 2009, there were 37 public-use airports, 184 private landing areas, and 2 seaplane bases in Massachusetts.[1] 24 of the public-use airports are government owned, either by municipalities or the Massachusetts Port Authority.[2]
Airports[]
This list contains the following information:
- City served – The city generally associated with the airport, as per the airport's master record with the Federal Aviation Administration. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve. It is not meant to be a complete list of cities served, which can be found in or added to each airport's Wikipedia article.
- FAA – The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
- IATA – The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
- ICAO – The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
- Airport name – The official airport name. Those shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.
- Role – One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2021–2025 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) report released September 2020:
- P-s: Commercial service – primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types (s):
- L: Large hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- M: Medium hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- S: Small hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- N: Nonhub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
- CS: Commercial service – nonprimary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
- R: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
- GA: General aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.
- P-s: Commercial service – primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types (s):
- Enplanements – The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2019, as per FAA records released October 2020.
City served | FAA | IATA | ICAO | Airport name | Role | Enpl. |
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Commercial service – primary airports | ||||||
Bedford | BED | BED | KBED | Hanscom Field / Hanscom Air Force Base | P-N | 10,194 |
Boston | BOS | BOS | KBOS | Gen. Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | P-L | 20,006,521 |
Hyannis | HYA | HYA | KHYA | Cape Cod Gateway Airport (Boardman/Polando Field) | P-N | 28,341 |
Nantucket | ACK | ACK | KACK | Nantucket Memorial Airport | P-N | 126,610 |
Provincetown | PVC | PVC | KPVC | Provincetown Municipal Airport | P-N | 10,316 |
Vineyard Haven | MVY | MVY | KMVY | Martha's Vineyard Airport | P-N | 52,605 |
Worcester | ORH | ORH | KORH | Worcester Regional Airport | P-N | 71,631 |
Commercial service – nonprimary airports | ||||||
New Bedford | EWB | EWB | KEWB | New Bedford Regional Airport | CS | 7,956 |
Reliever airports | ||||||
Beverly | BVY | BVY | KBVY | Beverly Regional Airport | R | 277 |
Lawrence | LWM | LWM | KLWM | Lawrence Municipal Airport | R | 180 |
Norwood | OWD | OWD | KOWD | Norwood Memorial Airport | R | 173 |
General aviation airports | ||||||
Chatham | CQX | KCQX | Chatham Municipal Airport | GA | 34 | |
Fitchburg | FIT | KFIT | Fitchburg Municipal Airport | GA | 27 | |
Gardner | GDM | GDM | KGDM | Gardner Municipal Airport | GA | 0 |
Great Barrington | GBR | GBR | KGBR | Walter J. Koladza Airport (Great Barrington Airport) | GA | 0 |
Mansfield | 1B9 | Mansfield Municipal Airport | GA | 0 | ||
Marshfield | GHG | KGHG | Marshfield Municipal Airport (George Harlow Field) | GA | 3 | |
Montague | 0B5 | Turners Falls Airport | GA | 0 | ||
North Adams | AQW | KAQW | Harriman-and-West Airport | GA | 7 | |
Northampton | 7B2 | Northampton Airport | GA | 3 | ||
Orange | ORE | KORE | Orange Municipal Airport | GA | 17 | |
Pittsfield | PSF | PSF | KPSF | Pittsfield Municipal Airport | GA | 179 |
Plymouth | PYM | PYM | KPYM | Plymouth Municipal Airport | GA | 46 |
Southbridge | 3B0 | Southbridge Municipal Airport | GA | 0 | ||
Springfield / Chicopee | CEF | CEF | KCEF | Westover Metropolitan Airport / Westover Air Reserve Base | GA | 668 |
Stow | 6B6 | Minute Man Air Field | GA | 0 | ||
Taunton | TAN | KTAN | Taunton Municipal Airport (King Field) | GA | 0 | |
Westfield / Springfield | BAF | BAF | KBAF | Barnes Municipal Airport | GA | 1,008 |
Other public-use airports (not listed in NPIAS) | ||||||
Barre / | 8B5 | Tanner-Hiller Airport | ||||
Berkley | 1M8 | Myricks Airport | ||||
Edgartown | 1B2 | Katama Airpark | ||||
Falmouth | 5B6 | Falmouth Airpark | ||||
Halifax | MA6 | Monponsett Pond Seaplane Base | ||||
Hanson | 28M | Cranland Airport | ||||
Hopedale | 1B6 | Hopedale Industrial Park Airport | ||||
Marlboro | 9B1 | Marlboro Airport | ||||
Marstons Mills | 2B1 | Cape Cod Airfield | ||||
Methuen | MA2 | Merrimack Valley Seaplane Base | ||||
Newburyport | 2B2 | Plum Island Airport | ||||
Spencer | 60M | Spencer Airport | ||||
Sterling | 3B3 | Sterling Airport | ||||
Military airports | ||||||
Falmouth | FMH | FMH | KFMH | Otis Air National Guard Base | ||
Notable private-use airports | ||||||
Amesbury | 6MA0 | Lake Gardner Seaplane Base | ||||
Ipswich | MA36 | Snow Airport (former public use, FAA: PHQ) | ||||
Palmer | 13MA | PMX | Metropolitan Airport (former public use, FAA: PMX) | |||
Ware | MA53 | UWA | Ware Airport (former public use, FAA: UWA) | |||
Notable former airports | ||||||
Acushnet | Acushnet Airport (1952–1959) [1] | |||||
Agawam | Bowles Agawam Airport (1930–1985) [2] | |||||
Ayer | Moore Army Airfield (1929–1995) | |||||
Bolton | Bolton Airport (1931–1951) [3] | |||||
Braintree | Braintree Airport (1948–1968) [4] | |||||
Brockton | Brockton Airport (1920s–1950s) [5] | |||||
Canton | Boston Metropolitan Airport (1931–1950s) [6] | |||||
Chatham | Chatham Naval Air Station | |||||
Chilmark | No Man's Land Navy Airfield | |||||
Fall River | Fall River Municipal Airport (closed 1996–1998) | |||||
Clark Airport [7] | ||||||
Danvers | Robbins Airport [8] | |||||
Gloucester | Coast Guard Aviation Station Ten Pound Island | |||||
Grafton | Grafton Airport [9] | |||||
Hatfield | Hatfield-Pilgrim Airport [10] | |||||
Haverhill | Haverhill Dutton Airport [11] | |||||
Haverhill | Haverhill Riverside Airport & Seaplane Base [12] | |||||
Lancaster | Pine Hill Airport [13] | |||||
Leicester | Leicester Airport [14] | |||||
Lowell | Lowell Airport | |||||
Nomans Land | No Man's Land Navy Airfield | |||||
Norfolk | Henan-Menon Memorial Airport [15] | |||||
North Middleboro Airpark [16] | ||||||
Quincy | NAS Squantum | |||||
Revere | Revere Airport (1927–1962) [17] | |||||
Salem | CGAS Salem | |||||
Saugus | Saugus Field | |||||
Seekonk, MA | Providence Airport (1928[3]–1950s) [18] | |||||
South Weymouth | Naval Air Station South Weymouth (Shea Field) | |||||
Springfield | Springfield Airport [19] | |||||
Tewksbury | Tew-Mac Airport (closed 1997) | |||||
Westboro | Westboro Airport (1934–1980) [20] |
Footnotes:
See also[]
- Massachusetts World War II Army Airfields
- Essential Air Service
- List of airports in the Boston area
- Massachusetts World War II Army Airfields
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America#Massachusetts
Sources[]
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
- FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010
- National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2011–2015), released September 2016
- Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2016 (final), released October 2017
Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT):
- MassDOT Aeronautics Division (formerly Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission)
Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list:
- Aviation Safety Network – used to check IATA airport codes
- Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Massachusetts – used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
- Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Massachusetts – used for information on former airports
References[]
- ^ "90 Day Integration Report, September 2009" (PDF). Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-23.
- ^ "About MAC (Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission)". Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on 2009-08-10.
- ^ "Airport to be built on site in Seekonk". Providence News. June 20, 1928.
External links[]
- Map of helipads in Massachusetts (136, all for private use)
- Airports in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts transportation-related lists
- Lists of airports in the United States
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