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Airport information for Teterboro Airport Country: United States Location: Teterboro Coordinates: 40.51.00N / 074.04.00W IATA Code: TEB Timezone: GMT -5 Direct flights form Teterboro Airport Direct flights to Teterboro Airport Find connecting flights to Teterboro Airport Find connecting flights from Teterboro Airport

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Teterboro Airport (IATA: TEB, ICAO: KTEB, FAA LID: TEB) is a civil aviation "fill-in" airport turn up in the Boroughs of Teterboro, Moonachie, and Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is owned and functioned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The airport is 12 land mile (19 kilometre) from midtown Manhattan in the New Jersey Meadowlands, which makes it real popular for private and corporate aircraft.

The airport take up about all of Teterboro and lies of 827 acres (3.35 kilometre^two): 90 acres (0.36 kilometre^two) for aircraft depot and business office, 408 acres (1.65 kilometre^two) for aeronautic use and landing track, and 329 acres (1.33 kilometre^two) undeveloped. The airport has more than 1,137 employees, of whom more than 90% are full clip.

In April 2009, the FAA accounted that the airport had the 3rd highest value of wildlife strikes of anybody airport in the United States ground on takeoffs and landings (43 per 100,000).

History

Teterboro Airport is the oldest functioning airport in the New York City area . Walter C. Teter (1863-1929) get the belonging in 1917. North American Aviation functioned a manufacturing constitute on the location during World War I. After the conflict, the airport assisted as a base of functioning for Anthony Fokker, the Dutch aircraft interior designer. The 1st voyage from the present airport location was do in 1919. During World War II, the United States Army and U.S. Air Force functioned the airport. The Port Authority of NY & NJ bought it on April 1, 1949, from Fred L. Wehran, a private owner and afterward rent it to Pan American World Airways (and its replacement organisation Johnson Controls) for 30 yr until December 1, 2000, when the Port Authority take for granted full duty for the functioning of Teterboro.

In January 1954, Arthur Godfrey bombinated the Teterboro control tower with his Douglas DC-3, ensuing in the suspension of his licence.

In 2003, U.S. Congressman Steve Rothman aided to clear a federal measure to retain a ban on aircraft surpassing a weight of 100,000 lb (45 t) from part from Teterboro because of excessive noise stages in the skirting residential communities.

Also in 2003, Teterboro briefly assisted as the ground for Indigo Airlines, a "public charter" air hose that offered daily voyages to Chicago Midway International Airport in Dassault Falcon and Embraer Legacy regional jet plane, with private land installations offering much faster check-in clips than air hose at other New York airports. Rothman forced the Port Authority and Transportation Security Administration to close down Indigo's functioning. Senators Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg get together in an attempt to carry Department of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta that Indigo's public charter voyages claimed sure security services it was not fit to furnish.

The wreckage after the jet plane crash in 2005

On February 2, 2005, at about seven:15am, a Canadair CL-600 jet plane going away for Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago go off the finish of the landing track while trying to abort its takeoff. The jet plane crashed through the airport's circumference fence, through traffic on adjacent U.S. Route 46, striking a vehicle, and crashed into a storage warehouse. No 1 was assassination, but several individuals were wound, some in earnest.

On October 11, 2006, a little civil aviation aeroplane, a Cirrus SR20, start from Teterboro, crashed in New York City at two:42 pm local clip. The aircraft struck the northward side of an apartment construction on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; it do a fire in 2 flats on the 40th and 41st flooring, which was snuff out within 1 60 minute. The aircraft was owned and fly by New York Yankees twirler Cory Lidle, who buy the farm in the accident alongside with his voyage teacher.

In January 2009 it was bring out that Teterboro was see as an emergency districting place by air traffic command during the crash of US Airways Flight 1549. Ultimately, the airplane pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, make up one's mind to ditch the aeroplane in the Hudson River.

Facilities

Buildings

Nineteen depots on the airport have a aggregative area  of about 412,000 square foot.

Two big office constructions centrally turn up, 1 at 90 Moonachie Ave and the other on Fred Wheran Drive, which houses the Department of Homeland Security. Both constructions busy a aggregative area  of 133,418 square foot.

Additional business office and store infinite with a aggregative area  of 165,611 square foot (15,385.8 m^two). An functioning construction, care installation and 2 fuel farms.

The airport incorporates the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey.

Control tower

The control tower was build on the east side of the airport by the FAA and went into functioning on October 29, 1975.

Runways

Runway 6-24 is 6,013 human foot (1,833 m) long and 150 human foot (46 m) broad, fit out with High Intensity Runway Lights (HIRL). Runway six draw close has an Instrument Landing System (ILS) and a Medium Approach Lighting System-R (MALS-R). Runway 24 draw close is fit out with both a Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) and Runway End Identification Lights (REIL) systems. Runway 6-24 underwent complete cover and grooving in 1987.

Runway 1-19 is 7,000 human foot (2,100 m) long and 150 human foot (46 m) broad, fit out with HIRL. Both landing track one and 19 are fit out with REIL systems. Runway one draw close is fit out with a VASI system. Runway 19 draw close has an ILS and a Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI). Runway 1-19 was covered and grooved in the summertime of 2000, and included the installing of center line and touchdown zone visible radiation. Runway 19 is the preferred landing track for noise abatement processes.

Taxiways

Approximately 4.2 land mile (6.8 kilometre) of taxi strip be on the airport. Most are 60 human foot (18 m) broad and are fit out with center line visible lighting systems.

Aircraft

For the 12-month time period finish December 31, 2006, the airport had 199,199 aircraft functioning, an mean of 545 per solar day: 62% civil aviation, 38% air cab, <1% armed forces and <1% scheduled commercial. At that clip there were 171 aircraft ground at this airport: 22% single-engine, 13% multi-engine, 56% jet plane and 9% eggbeater.

Other

The Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey is turn up on the airport lands. Founded in 1972, it is the 1st province air power hall of renown in the commonwealth, honour the men and adult female who take eminent aeronautic accomplishments to the province. The late spread out museum offers visitants an chance to position historic air and infinite equipment and artefacts, pictures, art and an extensive framework aggregation. The Library has more than 4,000 volumes and centuries of air power picture tapes.

Public transportation system

Teterboro Airport is able to be hit from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on New Jersey Transit bus route 165 (regular service), 161 (limited service) and 144 (extremum time period weekdays). The Teterboro (NJT station) is the closest rail station alongside New Jersey Transit's Pascack Valley Line, but the Wood-Ridge station is also close to the southwestward of the airport.

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