Manchester–Boston Regional Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Air photo taken 11 April 1998
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | City of Manchester | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Manchester, New Hampshire | ||||||||||||||
Location | Manchester and Londonderry, New Hampshire, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Hub for | Wiggins Airways | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 266 ft / 81 m | ||||||||||||||
Website | www |
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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Aircraft operations (2007) | 93,138 |
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Based aircraft (2007) | 100 |
Passengers (2010) | 2,814,125 |
Coordinates: 42°55′57″N 071°26′08″W / 42.93250°N 71.43556°W
Manchester–Boston Regional Airport (IATA: MHT, ICAO: KMHT, FAA LID: MHT), commonly referred to as Manchester Airport, is a public airport 3 miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Manchester, New Hampshire, on the border of Hillsborough and Rockingham counties. The airport lies in two communities, Manchester and Londonderry.
Founded in 1927, it moved more than 1 million passengers in a year for the first time in 1997. It handled 3.72 million passengers in 2008, down from its all-time high of 4.33 million in 2005. Manchester–Boston Regional Airport is by far the busiest airport in New Hampshire and the only one with substantial commercial service. It is also New England's fourth-largest airport by passenger volume, behind Boston Logan in Massachusetts, Bradley International in Connecticut, and T. F. Green in Rhode Island.