List of airports in Connecticut
This is a list of airports in Connecticut, grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some privately owned 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.
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 2023–2027 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) report released September 2022:
- 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 2021, as per FAA records released 2022.
City served | FAA | IATA | ICAO | Airport name | Role | Enplanements (2022) |
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Commercial service – primary airports | ||||||
Hartford | BDL | BDL | KBDL | Bradley International Airport | P-M | 2,884,843 |
New Haven | HVN | HVN | KHVN | Tweed-New Haven Airport | P-N | 372,000 |
Reliever airports | ||||||
Danbury | DXR | DXR | KDXR | Danbury Municipal Airport | R | 27 |
Hartford | HFD | HFD | KHFD | Hartford–Brainard Airport | R | 19 |
Plainville | 4B8 | Robertson Field | R | 0 | ||
General aviation airports | ||||||
Bridgeport | BDR | BDR | KBDR | Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport | GA | 61 |
Danielson | LZD | KLZD | Danielson Airport | GA | 0 | |
Groton / New London | GON | GON | KGON | Groton–New London Airport | GA | 72 |
Meriden | MMK | KMMK | Meriden Markham Municipal Airport | GA | 0 | |
Oxford | OXC | OXC | KOXC | Waterbury–Oxford Airport | GA | 177 |
Willimantic | IJD | KIJD | Windham Airport | GA | 0 | |
Other public-use airports (not listed in NPIAS) | ||||||
Chester | SNC | KSNC | Chester Airport | |||
East Haddam | 42B | Goodspeed Airport | ||||
Ellington | 7B9 | Ellington Airport | ||||
Marlborough | 9B8 | Salmon River Airfield | ||||
New Milford | 11N | Candlelight Farms Airport | ||||
Putnam | C44 | Toutant Airport | ||||
Simsbury | 4B9 | Simsbury Airport (Simsbury Tri-Town Airport) | ||||
Warehouse Point | 7B6 | Skylark Airpark | ||||
Waterbury | N41 | Waterbury Airport | ||||
Notable private-use airports | ||||||
Bethlehem | CT01 | Whelan Farms Airport | ||||
Bethlehem | 5CT5 | Thomson Field Airport | ||||
Bethlehem | 33CT | Irish Hills Farm Airport | ||||
Bozrah | CT36 | Gager Field Airport | ||||
Bristol | CT96 | Green Acres Airport | ||||
Colchester | CT08 | Gardner Lake Airport | ||||
Colchester | CT07 | Ski's Landing Area Airport | ||||
Coventry | CT09 | Heckler Field Airport | ||||
Durham | CT39 | Maplewood Farm Airport | ||||
East Haddam | CT11 | Devils Hopyard Field Airport | ||||
East Windsor | CT85 | Roberts Farm Airport | ||||
Ellington | CT15 | Wysocki Field Airport | ||||
Enfield | CT19 | Laurie Field Airport | ||||
Goshen | CT42 | Wings Ago Airstrip | ||||
Griswold | CT43 | Spruce Airport | ||||
Jewett City | 24CT | Bee Field Airport | ||||
Marlborough | CT20 | Rankl Field Airport | ||||
Newtown | CT52 | Flying Ridge Airstrip | ||||
North Canaan | CT24 | North Canaan Airport | ||||
North Stonington | CT48 | Wychwood Field Airport | ||||
Old Lyme | 5CT7 | Mile Creek Airport | ||||
Roxbury | CT59 | Good Hill Farm Airport | ||||
South Windsor | CT14 | Bancroft Airport | ||||
Stonington | CT80 | Stonington Airpark | ||||
Voluntown | CT32 | Gallup Farm Airport | ||||
Washington | CT66 | Cambrown Airport | ||||
Westford | CT74 | Westford Airstrip | ||||
Woodstock | 64CT | Woodstock Airport | ||||
Notable former airports | ||||||
Ansonia | Ansonia Airport (closed 1988-89, now suburban housing)[1] | |||||
Bethany | Bethany Airport (closed 1966, now town land)[1] | |||||
Bristol | Stephenson Field, later Bristol Airport (closed 1955-58, now ESPN HQ)[2] | |||||
East Hartford | Rentschler Field (closed 1993-97, now stadium, retail)[2] | |||||
Essex | Doane Airport, later Essex Airport (closed 1955-56, still undeveloped)[3] | |||||
Hamden | Hamden Airport (closed 1936, now industrial park)[2] | |||||
Madison | Griswold Airport (closed 2007, now municipal athletic fields)[1] | |||||
Monroe | Monroe Airport (closed 1973-79, now cemeteries)[2] | |||||
Norwalk | Norwalk Airport (closed 1940-41, now parochial school)[2] | |||||
Pachaug | Pachaug Airport, later Lakeside Airport (closed 1993, now industrial park)[3] | |||||
Salem | Salem Airport (closed 1951-1960, still undeveloped)[3] | |||||
Stafford Springs | Swift Airfield (closed by 2016)[3] | |||||
Waterford | New London–Waterford Airport (closed 1988, still undeveloped)[3] | |||||
West Haven | H & H Airport, later West Haven Airport (closed 1950, now suburban housing, elementary school)[1] |
See also
References
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 (2017–2021), released September 2016
- Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2019 and 2020, updated November 8, 2021
Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT):
- Connecticut Airports
- "Connecticut Statewide Airport System Plan" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-05.
- "Inventory of Airports, June 2006" (PDF).[permanent dead link] (3.87 MB)
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 Connecticut – used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
Citations
- ^ a b c d "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Central Connecticut".
- ^ a b c d e "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Western Connecticut".
- ^ a b c d e "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Eastern Connecticut".
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Airports in Connecticut
- Danbury
- Hartford–Brainard
- Robertson
- Candlelight Farms
- Ellington
- Goodspeed
- Salmon River
- Skylark
- Toutant
- Waterbury