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The airport is located in Queens, New York City. It is the busiest of the seven airports in the New York airport system, the sixth-busiest airport in the United States, and the busiest international commercial airport in North America. [5] The airport, which covers 5,200 acres (2,104 ha), is the largest in the New York metropolitan area. [6] [7]
Teterboro Airport is the oldest operating airport in the New York metropolitan area. Walter C. Teter (1863–1929) acquired the property in 1917. [9] While other localities had municipal airports, New York City itself had a multitude of private airfields, and thus did not see the need for a municipal airport until the late 1920s.
For the airports in the New York metropolitan area, see Aviation in the New York metropolitan area. This is a list of airports in New York (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports ...
LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) / l ə ˈ ɡ w ɑːr d i ə / is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. Covering 680 acres (280 ha ) as of July 1, 2024 [update] , [ 3 ] the facility was established in 1929 and began operating as a public airport in 1939.
Newark Liberty International Airport[a] (IATA: EWR, ICAO: KEWR, FAA LID: EWR) is a major international airport serving the New York metropolitan area. The airport straddles the boundary between the cities of Newark in Essex County and Elizabeth in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
New York Stewart International Airport (IATA: SWF, ICAO: KSWF, FAA LID: SWF) – colloquially known as Stewart International Airport, is a public/military airport in Orange County, New York, United States. [ 2 ] It is in the southern Hudson Valley, west of Newburgh, south of Kingston, and southwest of Poughkeepsie, approximately 60 miles (97 km ...
On June 1, 1985, New York Air began a small hub operation at Dulles with 35 daily flights to eight cities in Florida and the northeast U.S. Colgan Airways became a feeder carrier for New York Air with additional service to smaller cities known as New York Air Connection. On February 1, 1987, New York Air was merged into Continental Airlines and ...
The lesser-known airport is located in New Windsor, New York, which is about 60 miles north of Manhattan, or about an hour and a half drive.