List of airports in Connecticut

This is a list of airports in Connecticut (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.

Airports

This list contains the following information:

• City served - The city generally associated with the airport. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve.
• 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 service on commercial airlines.
• Role - One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2009-2013 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Report:
  • P: 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:
    • 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: Non-Hub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
  • CS: Commercial Service - Non-Primary 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.
• Enpl. - The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2008, as per FAA records.

See also

• Connecticut World War II Army Airfields
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America#Connecticut

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 for 2009–2013, updated 15 October 2008
• Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2008, updated 18 December 2009

State:

• Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT), Bureau of Aviation & Ports: Connecticut Airports
• Connecticut Statewide Airport System Plan: Inventory of Airports, June 2006PDF (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
• Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Connecticut - used for information on former airports