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Teterboro Airport (KTEB) is a busy general aviation reliever field in the New Jersey Meadowlands, just north-northwest of Manhattan, and is the oldest continuously operating airport in the New York City area. It handles a steady flow of business jets, charter aircraft and piston traffic under full ATC control within the New York Class B airspace, with two lit hard-surface runways and ILS approaches to both 19 and 06.
Teterboro Airport lies in Bergen County, New Jersey, within the boroughs of Teterboro, Moonachie and Hasbrouck Heights, about twelve miles north-northwest of Midtown Manhattan. It is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and operated by AFCO AvPORTS Management, functioning purely as a general aviation and business aviation field since commercial airline service was effectively banned by a weight restriction. For the simulator pilot it offers a compact, tightly controlled airfield close to one of the busiest airspace systems in the world, with plenty of corporate jet and charter traffic to mix with.
Teterboro sits inside the New York Class B airspace complex, close to Newark, LaGuardia and Kennedy, and pilots operating to and from the field are worked continuously by New York Approach and Departure. The airport occupies most of the borough of Teterboro in the New Jersey Meadowlands, on the Hackensack River, with the built-up area of Hackensack and the Hackensack University Medical Center nearby to the northeast.
Teterboro has two physical runways. Runway 01/19 is 6,226 to 6,228 feet long with a hard, lit surface, and runway 19 is equipped with an ILS. Runway 06/24 is 6,005 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS serving runway 06. Field elevation is 3 feet above mean sea level.
Arriving and departing traffic is worked by Teterboro Tower on 119.5 MHz (alternate 125.1 MHz), with Teterboro Ground on 121.9 MHz and Teterboro Clearance Delivery on 128.05 MHz. The ATIS broadcasts on 132.025 MHz. New York Approach is on 127.6 MHz, and New York Departure operates on 126.7 MHz with an alternate of 119.2 MHz. Airport Operations can be reached on 130.575 MHz, and Millville Radio flight service is available on 122.65 MHz with an alternate of 122.2 MHz. Both runway 19 and runway 06 have ILS approaches, and an RNAV (GPS) approach to runway 19 is also published as a pilot-request option designed to reduce noise over the surrounding residential areas.
All operations at Teterboro are conducted under full air traffic control given its location within New York's Class B airspace, so there is no informal circuit joining as such; pilots should expect vectored arrivals and departures coordinated with New York Approach and Departure and Teterboro Tower. Runway 19 is the preferred runway for noise abatement, and the RNAV (GPS) X approach to runway 19 exists specifically to reduce the impact of aircraft noise on the Hackensack University Medical Center and nearby residential areas. The Teterboro Aircraft Noise Abatement Advisory Committee works with airport management and the FAA on noise-related procedures, and pilots planning a visit should check current noise abatement guidance before departure or arrival.
The Hackensack River and the low-lying Meadowlands wetlands surrounding the airport are useful visual references, as is the Hackensack University Medical Center to the northeast, which is also the focus of the noise-sensitive RNAV approach to runway 19. The airport's position some twelve miles north-northwest of the Manhattan skyline makes the city itself a prominent landmark for orientation on the approach.
Teterboro is the oldest operating airport in the New York City area. The land was acquired by Walter C. Teter in 1917, and North American Aviation ran an aircraft manufacturing plant there during the First World War. After the war the field became a base of operations for the Dutch aircraft designer Anthony Fokker, and the first flight from the present airport site took place in 1919. In 1926 Colonial Air Transport, operating from Teterboro, became the first private company to deliver mail by air. The United States Army made use of the airport during the Second World War. The Port of New York Authority agreed to purchase the field from Frederic Wehran in August 1948 for just over three million dollars, with the deal finalised in April 1949, and the Port Authority went on to lease the airport to Pan American World Airways, and later to its successor Johnson Controls, for thirty years until it resumed direct operation in December 2000. Since 1977 aircraft over 100,000 pounds have been barred from taking off from Teterboro, and in 2003 this restriction was codified into federal law, ruling out any prospect of scheduled commercial service and shaping the airport's present role as a dedicated business and general aviation field.
Teterboro today operates exclusively as a general aviation and business aviation airport, with no scheduled commercial airline service due to its 100,000 pound aircraft weight limit. Traffic is dominated by private and corporate jets and air taxi operations, supported by fixed base operators on the field offering fuel, handling and hangarage. International arrivals can clear customs on site. Prior permission is required for some categories of arrival at Teterboro, and pilots should check current requirements before planning a flight in.