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Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport (KHVN) lies three miles southeast of downtown New Haven, Connecticut, straddling the boundary between the City of New Haven and the Town of East Haven. Opened in 1931 as New Haven Municipal Airport and renamed in 1961 after its first airport manager, John H. "Jack" Tweed, it remains one of only two airports in Connecticut with scheduled commercial service, alongside general aviation traffic, making it a useful VFR and IFR destination for pilots visiting the New Haven area.
Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport serves New Haven, Connecticut, and the wider New York metropolitan area, sitting three miles southeast of downtown New Haven and split between the City of New Haven, which owns the field, and the Town of East Haven. It is a public airport classified by the FAA as a non-hub primary commercial service facility, combining scheduled airline flights with general aviation activity, and is the operating base for Avelo Airlines. For a simulator pilot, its coastal Connecticut position, mix of instrument and visual traffic, and long aviation history make it an interesting waypoint between the New York and Boston terminal areas.
The airport is located in New Haven County, Connecticut, three miles southeast of downtown New Haven, with the field itself lying partly within the city and partly within the neighbouring Town of East Haven. Approach and departure control in the area is provided by New York Approach/Departure. Pilots transiting the region should be aware of the proximity of the wider New York and Boston terminal airspace complexes when planning a route to or from Tweed.
Tweed-New Haven has two physical runway pairs. Runway 02/20 is the longer of the two, with the 02 threshold recorded at 5,606 feet and the 20 threshold at 5,254 feet; both are hard-surfaced and lit, and Runway 02 is equipped with an ILS. Runway 14/32 is the secondary strip, with the 32 threshold at 3,314 feet and the 14 threshold at 3,260 feet, also hard-surfaced and lit. Field elevation is 7 feet.
New Haven Tower operates on 124.8 MHz, which also serves as the CTAF; ground movements are handled on 121.7 MHz. The ATIS broadcasts on 133.65 MHz, and UNICOM is available on 122.95 MHz. New York Approach/Departure works arriving and departing traffic on 124.075 MHz. A remote communications outlet, Bridgeport RDO, is available on 109.8 MHz. Runway 02 is served by an ILS for instrument approaches.
Ground was broken for New Haven Municipal Airport on 11 November 1929, and the field was dedicated and opened for traffic on 29 August 1931. It was renamed Tweed-New Haven Airport on 25 June 1961 in honour of John H. "Jack" Tweed, the airport's first manager. Scheduled airline service began in November 1933 with Li-Con Airways (Long Island-Connecticut Airways), followed from 1934 by American Airlines, which used New Haven as a stop on New York-Boston flights until 1960. Allegheny Airlines and its commuter affiliates, Eastern Airlines (which operated Boeing 727 and DC-9 jet service in the 1970s, including nonstop flights to Baltimore-Washington, Washington National and Boston), and the locally based New Haven Airways/NewAir carrier all served the field through the 1970s and 1980s. Pilgrim Airlines, Business Express, Continental Express, USAir Express and, from 1985, jet service to Chicago O'Hare via Air Wisconsin and later United Airlines Boeing 737s, all operated from Tweed at various points, reflecting a long and varied history of commuter and regional airline activity at the airport.
Tweed-New Haven remains one of Connecticut's two airports with scheduled commercial service and is the operating base for Avelo Airlines, with Breeze Airways also offering nonstop flights from the field to numerous destinations. As of 2022 the airport had 63 based aircraft. The airport is currently subject to expansion plans, including a proposed new terminal and runway extension work under what is described locally as the East Terminal Project, a joint proposal involving the City of New Haven, the Town of East Haven, the Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority and the airport operator, though this remains subject to local, state and federal review. Pilots planning a visit should confirm current operating procedures and any prior permission requirements before flying in.
