Tweed New Haven Regional Airport

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Tweed New Haven Regional Airport
(formerly Tweed-New Haven Airport)


3 April 1991


FAA airport diagram
IATA: HVN – ICAO: KHVN – FAA: HVN
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of New Haven
Operator Tweed New Haven Airport Authority
Location New Haven, Connecticut and East Haven, Connecticut
Elevation AMSL 14 ft / 4 m
Coordinates 41°15′50″N 072°53′12″W / 41.26389, -72.88667
Website www.flytweed.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
2/20 5,600 1,707 Asphalt
14/32 3,626 1,105 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations 64,392
Based aircraft 72
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Tweed New Haven Regional Airport (IATA: HVN, ICAO: KHVN, FAA LID: HVN), formerly known as Tweed-New Haven Airport, is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southeast of the central business district of New Haven, a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It is owned by the City of New Haven.[1] It is partially located in the town of East Haven.

Tweed was dedicated on August 29, 1931, as the New Haven Municipal Airport. It was renamed Tweed in 1961 in honor of John H. Tweed, its first airport manager. Today the airport is managed by Amport of Teterboro, New Jersey. Amport is also the managers of Albany International Airport, Westchester Airport, Republic Airport, Atlantic City International Airport, and Teterboro Airport.

US Airways Express, which formerly flew from New Haven to both Philadelphia and Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., now is the only passenger airline that offers daily flights in and out of Tweed New Haven to Philadelphia. The airport is also popular with both private aircraft and companies providing flights for tourists who want to view the Connecticut shoreline from the air.

The airport was also served by Comair, a Delta Connection carrier that offered service to and from Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. This service was discontinued in January 2006. In the 1990s, Tweed had regular United Airlines non-stop jet service to Chicago.

Pan Am Clipper Connection, which is operated by Boston-Maine Airways, began non-stop service to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Hanscom Field, and Pease International Airport on March 8, 2007 using 19 seat Jetstream 31 aircraft. Service was discontinued on 30 July 2007.[2]

During major events at Yale University, the general aviation ramp is often crowded with private jets - for the 1997 graduation, the corporate jets of Coca Cola and Procter & Gamble were parked nose to nose on the tarmac. The airport also gets heavy use during the annual Pilot Pen Tennis tournament.

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[edit] Facility Future

The future of the airport has been the subject of disagreement between the city of New Haven and the town of East Haven. New Haven has advocated airport runway expansion, which would be required to attract more commercial air service. However, many East Haven residents are opposed, alleging that expansion would negatively affect the mostly residential neighborhoods surrounding the airport. In 2007, the Federal Aviation Administration and the State of Connecticut approved the proposed addition of safety overruns to Tweed's main runway. The city of New Haven issued the necessary wetlands and building permits for the project. However, officials in the town of East Haven voted to reject the upgrade proposal and deny permits for work on the East Haven side. The Airport Authority is performing the necessary work for the $25 million safety overruns on the New Haven side of the airport.[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Tweed-New Haven Airport covers an area of 394 acres (159 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 2/20 measuring 5,600 x 150 ft. (1,707 x 46 m) and 14/32 measuring 3,626 x 100 ft. (1,105 x 30 m).[1] During the 1990s, United Airlines service included Boeing 737s operating on the longer runway. In order to obtain take-off speed with these jets on full flights, it was not uncommon for passengers and/or luggage to be offloaded to reduce weight, or for the pilots to wait on the runway for a favorable wind.

For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2006, the airport had 64,392 aircraft operations, an average of 176 per day: 91% general aviation, 7% air taxi, 2% military and <1% scheduled commercial. There are 72 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single engine, 7% multi-engine and 7% jet aircraft.[1]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Incidents

  • 1 March 1958
    • A Convair CV-240-O operated by American Airlines with eight passengers destined for Bridgeport Airport crashed on the runway after the landing gear was retracted before the aircraft had lifted off. The plane landed on its belly and a small engine fire occurred. There were no injuries.

[edit] See Also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for HVN (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-07-05
  2. ^ "Pan Am ending flights at Tweed" Cara Baruzzi, New Haven Register, 21 July 2007.
  3. ^ Zapana, Victor. "Tweed renovations could take off even though East Haven remains opposed", Yale Daily News, 2008-04-23. Retrieved on 2008-05-06. 

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