Manchester–Boston Regional Airport
State of New Hampshire, Northern Greater Boston
- IATAMHT
- ICAOKMHT
- FAAMHT
- Serves
- State of New Hampshire, Northern Greater Boston
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Owner
- City of Manchester
- Opened
- Not recorded
- Elevation
- 266 ft (81 m)
- Runways
- 2 (longest 2,819 m)
- Airlines based here
- Wiggins Airways, Ameriflight
- Website
- www.FlyManchester.com
About the airport
Manchester–Boston Regional Airport (IATA: MHT, ICAO: KMHT, FAA LID: MHT), informally referred to by its former name Manchester Airport, is a public use airport 3 miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Manchester, New Hampshire, United States on the border of Hillsborough and Rockingham counties. It is owned by the city of Manchester, and is in the southern part of the city, on the border with Londonderry, New Hampshire, extending into that town. Opened in 1927, Manchester–Boston Regional Airport is by far the busiest airport in New Hampshire, with ten times the traffic of the next-busiest, Portsmouth. It is the only airport in the state with substantial commercial service. It is also New England's sixth-largest airport by passenger volume, behind Logan in Massachusetts; Bradley in Connecticut; Rhode Island T. F. Green in Rhode Island; Portland in Maine; and Patrick Leahy Burlington in Vermont. It moved more than 1 million passengers in a year for the first time in 1997. After years of growth, it handled 4.33 million passengers in 2005, its peak year. Passenger tallies have declined since then, similarly with many regional airports; it handled 1.85…
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.