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) reportreleased 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.
• Enplanements – The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2021, as per FAA recordsreleased 2022.

City served	FAA	IATA	ICAO	Airport name	Role	Enplanements (2022)
				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			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	EHT			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	N04			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	5B4			Pachaug Airport, later Lakeside Airport (closed 1993, now industrial park) [3]
Salem				Salem Airport (closed 1951-1960, still undeveloped) [3]
Stafford Springs	CT31			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

• Connecticut World War II Army Airfields
• Aviation in the New York metropolitan area

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

1. "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Central Connecticut".
2. "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Western Connecticut".
3. "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Eastern Connecticut".