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Cape Cod Gateway Airport (KHYA), also known as Boardman/Polando Field, lies a mile north of downtown Hyannis on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and serves as the principal air gateway to Cape Cod and the offshore islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. It combines a busy mix of airline, air-taxi and general aviation traffic on two hard-surfaced, lit runways, one of which is served by an ILS.
Cape Cod Gateway Airport is the main airport for Cape Cod, sitting just north of the Hyannis business district in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Owned by the Town of Barnstable, it functions as a regional air hub linking the mainland with Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, and it sees a lively year-round mix of scheduled airline, commuter, air-taxi and general aviation movements, with a marked seasonal increase in summer traffic. For a visiting VFR pilot it offers two well-equipped asphalt runways, control-tower services, and an interesting slice of New England aviation history.
The airport is located on Cape Cod, about one mile north of central Hyannis, in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Approach and departure control in the area is provided by Cape Approach/Departure, and Hyannis Tower provides air traffic control on the field itself. The airport's position on the Cape places it close to the seasonal routes flown to Boston, New York and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, and traffic levels rise significantly in the summer months as both commercial and private flying increases.
The airfield has two paved, lit runway pairs. Runway 06/24 is a hard-surfaced strip of approximately 5,419 feet, equipped with an ILS on the 24 approach. Runway 15/33 is a hard-surfaced strip of approximately 5,249 feet, with an ILS serving the 15 approach. Both runways are lit for night operations.
Hyannis Tower operates on 119.5 MHz, which also serves as the CTAF. Ground control is on 121.9 MHz, ATIS broadcasts on 123.8 MHz, and clearance delivery is available on 125.15 MHz. Cape Approach/Departure works the surrounding airspace on 118.2 MHz, with a remote Bridgeport radio outlet on 126.425 MHz. UNICOM is available on 122.95 MHz. The field is equipped with an ILS, supporting instrument approaches to the airport's runways.
The airport lies about a mile north of the central business district of Hyannis, which, together with the built-up Hyannis waterfront and Nantucket Sound to the south, provides a useful general landmark for pilots approaching from over the Cape.
Cape Cod Gateway Airport traces its origins to 1928. During the Second World War it operated as Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Hyannis, with both United States Navy and Army Air Forces aircraft flying antisubmarine patrols from the field. After the war it was returned to the Town of Barnstable and continued as a two-runway municipal airport serving the whole of Cape Cod. In 1981 it was renamed Barnstable Municipal Airport-Boardman/Polando Field in honour of Massachusetts aviators Russell Boardman and John Polando, the first pilots to complete a nonstop flight of 5,000 miles. The airport has hosted scheduled jet service since as early as 1969, when Northeast Airlines flew McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and Fairchild Hiller FH-227s to New York, Boston and Nantucket; over the following decades numerous regional and commuter carriers, including Air New England, Colgan Air, Business Express and Provincetown-Boston Airlines, operated from the field. On 1 January 2021 the airport rebranded from Barnstable Municipal Airport to its current name, Cape Cod Gateway Airport, to improve recognition among visitors unfamiliar with the Barnstable name.
The airport today is owned by the Town of Barnstable and serves as Cape Cod's principal commercial and general aviation field, with fixed-base operators Rectrix Aviation, Cape Air and Griffin Avionics based on the field. Scheduled service is provided year-round by Cape Air and Nantucket Airlines to Boston, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, with seasonal JetBlue and American Eagle jet service to New York, Philadelphia, Washington-National and Chicago-O'Hare. As of 2021 the airport had 37 based aircraft, comprising 31 single-engine and 6 multi-engine types, and it handles a substantial volume of air taxi and transient general aviation movements alongside its scheduled operations.
