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) reportreleased 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. They are public-use airports that do not have scheduled service or have scheduled service with less than 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
• Enplanements – The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2019, as per FAA recordsreleased October 2020.

City served	FAA	IATA	ICAO	Airport name	Role	Enplanements (2019)
				Commercial service – primary airports
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
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
Bedford	BED	BED	KBED	Hanscom Field / Hanscom Air Force Base	CS	10,194
New Bedford	EWB	EWB	KEWB	New Bedford Regional Airport	CS	7,956
Provincetown	PVC	PVC	KPVC	Provincetown Municipal Airport	CS	10,316
				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	Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport	GA	1,008
				Other public-use airports (not listed in NPIAS)
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
Marstons Mills	2B1			Cape Cod Airfield
Newburyport	2B2			Plum Island Airport
Spencer	60M			Spencer Airport
Sterling	3B3			Sterling Airport
				Military airports
Falmouth	FMH	FMH	KFMH	Otis Air National Guard Base
Springfield	CEF	CEF	KCEF	Westover Metropolitan Airport
				Notable private-use airports
Amesbury	6MA0			Lake Gardner Seaplane Base
Ipswich	MA36			Snow Airport (former public use, FAA: PHQ)
Oak Bluffs	MA44			Trade Wind Airport
Southwick	28MA			Cannizzaro Field
Ware	MA53	UWA		Ware Airport (former public use, FAA: UWA)
				Notable former airports
Acushnet				Acushnet Airport (1952–1959)
Agawam	7B0			Bowles Agawam Airport (1930–1985)
Ayer	AYE			Moore Army Airfield (1929–1995)
Barre	8B5			Tanner-Hiller Airport (1946–2024)
Bolton				Bolton Airport (1931–1951)
Braintree				Braintree Airport (1948–1968)
Brockton				Brockton Airport (1920s–1950s)
Canton				Boston Metropolitan Airport (1931–1950s)
Chatham				Chatham Naval Air Station
Chilmark				No Man's Land Navy Airfield
Fall River	FLR		KFLR	Fall River Municipal Airport (closed 1996–1998)
Hanover				Clark Airport
Danvers				Robbins Airport
Gloucester				Coast Guard Aviation Station Ten Pound Island
Grafton				Grafton Airport
Hatfield	MA03			Hatfield-Pilgrim Airport
Haverhill	8B6			Haverhill Dutton Airport
Haverhill	MA04			Haverhill Riverside Airport & Seaplane Base
Lancaster				Pine Hill Airport
Leicester	MA04			Leicester Airport
Lowell				Lowell Airport
Marlborough	9B1			Marlboro Airport
Methuen	MA2			Merrimack Valley Seaplane Base
Nomans Land				No Man's Land Navy Airfield
Norfolk				Henan-Menon Memorial Airport
North Middleboro				North Middleboro Airpark
Quincy				NAS Squantum
Palmer	13MA	PMX		Metropolitan Airport (former public use, FAA: PMX)
Revere				Revere Airport (1927–1962)
Salem				CGAS Salem
Saugus				Saugus Field
Seekonk, MA				Providence Airport (1928 [3] –1950s)
South Weymouth	NZY			Naval Air Station South Weymouth (Shea Field)
Springfield				Springfield Airport
Tewksbury	B09			Tew-Mac Airport (closed 1997)
Westboro	3B6			Westboro Airport (1934–1980)

See also

• Massachusetts World War II Army Airfields
• Essential Air Service
• 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 Archived May 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (formerly Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission)
  • Airport Data

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

1. "90 Day Integration Report, September 2009" (PDF). Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 23, 2012.
2. "About MAC (Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission)". Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on August 10, 2009.
3. "Airport to be built on site in Seekonk". Providence News. June 20, 1928. Archived from the original on February 15, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2016.

External links

• Map of helipads in Massachusetts (136, all for private use)