CircumFlightKBED LAURENCE G HANSCOM FLD
Bedford, MA · FAA identifier BED · Accident history (NTSB)
071°17′20.4″W
Conditions
Category: VFR Wind: 340° at 7 kt Visibility: 10 sm Temp/Dewpoint: 6°C / 2°C Altimeter: 29.58" Hg Sky: 1,400 ft - FEW 6,000 ft - BKN 8,000 ft - OVC
Category: VFR Wind: 330° at 6 kt Visibility: more than 6 sm Weather: KBED 131729Z Sky: 1,400 ft - FEW 6,000 ft - BKN 8,000 ft - OVC
Category: VFR Wind: 320° at 3 kt Visibility: more than 6 sm Sky: 6,000 ft - OVC
Category: VFR Wind: 320° at 3 kt Visibility: more than 6 sm Sky: 14,000 ft - BKN
Category: VFR Wind: 320° at 6 kt Visibility: more than 6 sm Sky: 20,000 ft - FEW
Runways
Frequencies
All frequencies (19)
| Use | Frequency | Sector | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOWER | 118.5 | 0700-2300 | |
| TOWER | 257.2 | 0700-2300 | |
| GND | 121.7 | ||
| CTAF | 118.500 | ||
| UNICOM | 122.950 | ||
| ASOS | 124.6 | ||
| ATIS | 124.6 | ||
| CLEARANCE | 121.85 | ||
| COMD POST | 362.95 | ||
| EMERG | 121.5 | ||
| EMERG | 243.0 | ||
| MERRIMACK APCH DEP | 124.4 | ||
| MERRIMACK APCH DEP | 279.6 | ||
| MERRIMACK DREEM STAR | 124.4 | ||
| MERRIMACK DREEM STAR | 279.6 | ||
| MERRIMACK ZELKA STAR | 124.4 | ||
| MERRIMACK ZELKA STAR | 279.6 | ||
| WINDSOR LOCKS DREEM STAR | 119.0 | ||
| WINDSOR LOCKS DREEM STAR | 327.1 |
Procedures and charts
Charts open from the FAA's digital Terminal Procedures Publication, cycle 2612, effective 11/26/2026 12:00:00 AM to 12/24/2026 12:00:00 AM. Not for navigation; check the cycle before flight.
NOTAMs
Not for operational use
NOTAMs as captured by CircumFlight from the FAA's NOTAM distribution; not FAA data, and not necessarily complete or current. Always get an official briefing before flight.
PLAIN-LANGUAGE READING - BEST EFFORT. Abbreviations are expanded automatically and may be wrong or incomplete. The raw NOTAM above is the official text; fly by it, not by this.
RUNWAYS (2)
TAXIWAYS (2)
APRON (1)
TOWER LIGHTS (5)
NAV & PROCEDURES (2)
Release queue
No departures are waiting on a release time right now.
No recent releases in the current picture.
Release times (the slot at the departure fix) and delay causes from traffic management, derived by CircumFlight, as of 1829Z; not FAA data and not for operational use. Get your release from ATC. Aircraft whose owners have asked the FAA to limit the display of their flights are not shown.
Arrivals and departures
| Flight | Type | From | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAS84 | KJFK | Taxiing out at KJFK | |
| LXJ576 | CL35 | KHPN | 7 nm · 1,700 ft · 211 kt · ~2 min |
| EJA945 | C68A | KORL | 10 nm · 2,000 ft · 193 kt · ~3 min |
| LXJ304 | E55P | KRDU | 410 nm · FL370 · 529 kt · ~46 min |
| VJA549 | CL30 | KNEW | 473 nm · FL450 · 503 kt · ~56 min |
| LXJ578 | CL35 | KMDW | 544 nm · FL450 · 472 kt · ~69 min |
| N330GW | H25B | KDJT | 800 nm · FL410 · 503 kt · ~95 min |
| N944J | C25M | KNEW | 1165 nm · 5,100 ft · 225 kt · ~311 min |
No outbound flights in the current picture.
Flights seen in the last five minutes, as of 1828Z. A departure at a gate has its departure clearance and has not yet moved; a place marked (est.) is the nearest stand to the aircraft's last surface position. Derived by CircumFlight from air traffic management feeds; not FAA data and not for operational use. Times are estimates from distance and ground speed. Aircraft whose owners have asked the FAA to limit the display of their flights are not shown.
Statistics
Grants
| FY | Grants | Awarded | AIP | Other programs | Tower ops | $ / op | US $ / op | Share of US |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1 | $1,540,278 | $1,540,278 | — | 175,832 | $8.76 | $51.72 | 0.04% |
| 2012 | 1 | $534,217 | $534,217 | — | 166,211 | $3.21 | $53.60 | 0.02% |
| 2013 | 2 | $1,292,576 | $1,292,576 | — | 154,488 | $8.37 | $50.51 | 0.04% |
| 2014 | 2 | $1,024,819 | $1,024,819 | — | 134,295 | $7.63 | $57.58 | 0.03% |
| 2015 | 1 | $1,137,259 | $1,137,259 | — | 128,279 | $8.87 | $52.92 | 0.04% |
| 2016 | 1 | $743,148 | $743,148 | — | 121,789 | $6.10 | $52.74 | 0.02% |
| 2017 | 1 | $3,105,850 | $3,105,850 | — | 128,598 | $24.15 | $55.49 | 0.09% |
| 2018 | 2 | $5,784,503 | $5,784,503 | — | 121,664 | $47.54 | $60.64 | 0.17% |
| 2019 | 1 | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | — | 128,671 | $7.77 | $58.29 | 0.03% |
| 2020 | 1 | $1,090,657 | $981,592 | $109,065 | 99,725 | $10.94 | $102.15 | 0.02% |
| 2021 | 2 | $1,347,544 | $1,161,490 | $186,054 | 124,580 | $10.82 | $193.37 | 0.01% |
| 2022 | 2 | $1,467,793 | $1,319,793 | $148,000 | 122,216 | $12.01 | $136.54 | 0.02% |
| 2023 | 2 | $4,212,929 | $2,199,736 | $2,013,193 | 122,755 | $34.32 | $129.46 | 0.06% |
| 2024 | 2 | $3,875,905 | $2,867,380 | $1,008,525 | 119,143 | $32.53 | $114.61 | 0.06% |
| 2025 | 2 | $3,692,210 | $3,005,210 | $687,000 | — | — | — | 0.04% |
Other programs: pandemic relief (CARES, CRRSA, ARPA), the infrastructure law (AIG, ATRM, FCT) and ARRA. US $ / op is that fiscal year's awards to towered fields divided by those fields' operations, so it compares like with like; Share of US is this field's awards against every award in the FAA's report for the year. A year without counts has no tower figures.
Weighted comparison (CircumFlight's own estimate)
An airline operation and a light-aircraft operation are not the same use of an airport, so this view weights itinerant operations before dividing: air carrier 32, air taxi and military 4, general aviation 1, roughly in proportion to fuel burned, and so to the fuel and ticket taxes that fund the Airport and Airway Trust Fund. The weights are CircumFlight's, not the FAA's; local (pattern) operations are left out. The US column uses the same weights over every towered field with an award that year.
| FY | Air carrier | Air taxi + mil. | General aviation | Units | $ / unit | US $ / unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 431 | 23,813 | 85,319 | 194,363 | $7.92 | $4.92 |
| 2012 | 266 | 19,821 | 75,917 | 163,713 | $3.26 | $5.09 |
| 2013 | 253 | 19,358 | 72,644 | 158,172 | $8.17 | $4.56 |
| 2014 | 256 | 19,517 | 64,211 | 150,471 | $6.81 | $5.04 |
| 2015 | 220 | 19,831 | 60,168 | 146,532 | $7.76 | $4.33 |
| 2016 | 267 | 21,202 | 59,761 | 153,113 | $4.85 | $4.31 |
| 2017 | 295 | 23,048 | 59,207 | 160,839 | $19.31 | $4.47 |
| 2018 | 319 | 22,804 | 56,253 | 157,677 | $36.69 | $4.76 |
| 2019 | 433 | 23,925 | 59,653 | 169,209 | $5.91 | $4.50 |
| 2020 | 240 | 18,318 | 44,671 | 125,623 | $8.68 | $9.32 |
| 2021 | 453 | 26,780 | 57,015 | 178,631 | $7.54 | $18.37 |
| 2022 | 594 | 28,330 | 56,922 | 189,250 | $7.76 | $11.81 |
| 2023 | 645 | 29,194 | 55,068 | 192,484 | $21.89 | $10.65 |
| 2024 | 676 | 29,550 | 52,466 | 192,298 | $20.16 | $9.06 |
| All | 5,348 | 325,491 | 859,275 | 2,332,375 | $12.07 | — |
| Category | Grants | Awarded | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runways | 10 | $15,430,853 | 48% | |
| Taxiways | 6 | $8,673,459 | 27% | |
| Safety and security | 2 | $4,978,688 | 16% | |
| Aprons | 2 | $1,868,236 | 5.9% | |
| Snow removal and equipment | 1 | $471,031 | 1.5% | |
| Lighting, signs and navaids | 1 | $222,421 | 0.70% | |
| Pandemic relief | 2 | $205,000 | 0.64% |
Categories are read from the FAA's project wording by CircumFlight's rules (noise mitigation first, then the pandemic programs, terminals, runways, taxiways, aprons, lighting and navaids, safety and security, snow removal and equipment, land, planning, buildings and roads). A grant that lists several projects is counted under its largest line item here and shown under it below; a line item with several projects takes the first one named.
| FY | Grant | Category | Amount | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-25-0003-052-2025 2025-08-13 |
Taxiways | $687,000 | Construct Taxiway, Rehabilitate Taxiway |
| 2025 | 3-25-0003-053-2025 2025-08-28 |
Taxiways | $3,005,210 | Construct Taxiway, Rehabilitate Taxiway |
| 2024 | 3-25-0003-050-2024 2024-07-31 |
Runways | $1,008,525 | Rehabilitate Runway |
| 2024 | 3-25-0003-051-2024 2024-08-19 |
Runways | $2,867,380 | Rehabilitate Runway |
| 2023 | 3-25-0003-048-2023 2023-07-14 |
Runways | $2,013,193 | Rehabilitate Runway |
| 2023 | 3-25-0003-049-2023 2023-07-14 |
Runways | $2,199,736 | Rehabilitate Runway, Rehabilitate Runway Lighting |
| 2022 | 3-25-0003-046-2022 2021-12-03 |
Pandemic relief | $148,000 | General ARPA |
| 2022 | 3-25-0003-047-2022 2022-07-07 |
Taxiways | $1,319,793 | Seal Taxiway Pavement Surface/Pavement Joints |
| 2021 | 3-25-0003-044-2021 2021-04-26 |
Pandemic relief | $57,000 | CRRSA Act Funds |
| 2021 | 3-25-0003-045-2021 2021-06-10 |
Taxiways | $1,290,544 $1.2M AIP |
Rehabilitate Taxiway |
| 2020 | seq. 43 | Aprons | $1,090,657 $982K AIP |
Reconstruct Taxiway Lighting; Rehabilitate Apron |
| 2019 | 3-25-0003-042-2019 | Aprons | $1,000,000 | Rehabilitate Apron |
| 2018 | seq. 040 | Runways | $1,000,000 | Rehabilitate Runway - Phase II (phased for funding only) |
| 2018 | seq. 041 | Safety and security | $4,784,503 | Construct Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Building - |
| 2017 | seq. 39 | Runways | $3,105,850 | Rehabilitate Runway - 11/29 |
| 2016 | seq. 38 | Runways | $743,148 | Rehabilitate Runway - 05/23, Rehabilitate Taxiway |
| 2015 | seq. 37 | Runways | $1,137,259 | Construct Apron, Improve Runway Safety Area - 05/23 |
| 2014 | seq. 35 | Safety and security | $194,185 | Install Perimeter Fencing |
| 2014 | seq. 36 | Taxiways | $830,634 | Rehabilitate Taxiway [Taxilane] |
| 2013 | seq. 33 | Runways | $821,545 | Improve Runway Safety Area - 11/29, Rehabilitate Taxiway [Taxilane Old Hangars] |
| 2013 | seq. 34 | Snow removal and equipment | $471,031 | Acquire Snow Removal Equipment [2] |
| 2012 | seq. 32 | Runways | $534,217 | Improve Runway Safety Area [Relocate Road and Fence] - 11/29 |
| 2010 | seq. 31 | Taxiways | $1,540,278 | Rehabilitate Taxiway [Taxiway "S" and West Ramp] |
From the FAA's Airport Improvement Program grant history reports, FY2010–FY2025 (federal fiscal years, October to September), as the FAA published them. Every program in those reports is counted: from FY2020 they include CARES, CRRSA and ARPA relief, and from FY2021 the infrastructure law's AIG, terminal (ATRM) and contract tower (FCT) grants, so a total here is not AIP alone; the AIP share is shown separately. Tower operations are the FAA's ATADS counts for towered fields, calendar years 2010 to 2024; a field without a tower has no counts, and a year's dollars per operation divide a fiscal year's awards by the same-numbered calendar year's count. Grants to state block programs, system plans and proposed airports carry no airport identifier and are not shown on airport pages. Ranks count airports with at least one award in these years. Figures are as published and may be revised by the FAA; this is not FAA analysis. Sources: FAA AIP grant histories, FAA ATADS airport operations. What a sponsor agrees to in accepting a grant: FAA grant assurances.
Nearby airports
| Airport | Name | Distance | Bearing | Conditions | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6B6 | MINUTE MAN AIR FLD | 10.2 nm | 267° W | — | |
| KBOS | GENERAL EDWARD LAWRENCE LOGAN INTL | 14.1 nm | 117° SE | VFR | 340° 9 kt |
| KLWM | LAWRENCE MUNI | 16.5 nm | 026° NE | VFR | 350° 5 kt |
| KOWD | NORWOOD MEML | 17.5 nm | 163° S | VFR | 360° 7 kt |
| KBVY | BEVERLY RGNL | 17.9 nm | 067° NE | VFR | 010° 8 kt |
| KASH | BOIRE FLD | 21.2 nm | 332° NW | MVFR | 350° 5 kt |
| KFIT | FITCHBURG MUNI | 21.4 nm | 284° W | MVFR | 340° 4 kt |
| 3B3 | STERLING | 22.5 nm | 263° W | — | |
| 1B6 | HOPEDALE INDUSTRIAL PARK | 23.9 nm | 204° SW | — | |
| 2B2 | PLUM ISLAND | 27.9 nm | 045° NE | — | |
| 1B9 | MANSFIELD MUNI | 28.5 nm | 172° S | — | |
| KMHT | MANCHESTER BOSTON RGNL | 28.5 nm | 347° N | MVFR | 320° 7 kt |
Private-use fields nearby (25)
| MA52 | SIDS | 8.2 nm | 257° W | — | |
| 8MA4 | CROW ISLAND | 9.6 nm | 251° W | — | |
| MA87 | CAPE AIR SEAPLANES ON BOSTON HARBOR | 13.6 nm | 121° SE | — | |
| MA17 | TAILWIND BOSTON | 13.7 nm | 121° SE | — | |
| MA74 | LARSON'S | 14.5 nm | 337° NW | — | |
| 1MA5 | UNKNOWN FLD | 16.2 nm | 225° SW | — | |
| NH78 | STECK FARM | 17.0 nm | 348° N | — | |
| 26MA | PEPPERELL | 17.8 nm | 320° NW | — | |
| 04MA | GODDARD | 21.5 nm | 018° N | — | |
| MA36 | SNOW | 22.6 nm | 058° NE | — | |
| 78NH | WHITNEY LANDING | 24.0 nm | 008° N | — | |
| NH17 | ZIM | 24.5 nm | 309° NW | — | |
| NH16 | BROOKLINE | 24.7 nm | 312° NW | — | |
| 6MA2 | MEADOWBROOK | 26.7 nm | 029° NE | — | |
| NH76 | MASON AIRFIELD | 26.9 nm | 306° NW | — | |
| 52NH | BABOOSIC LAKE | 27.7 nm | 333° NW | — | |
| 6MA0 | LAKE GARDNER | 28.0 nm | 033° NE | — | |
| NH66 | PLEASANT VIEW | 28.8 nm | 020° N | — | |
| 7NH7 | BALDWIN HILL | 29.8 nm | 322° NW | — | |
| NH61 | NEW POVERTY FLATS | 30.2 nm | 009° N | — | |
| MA40 | DIESEL DOGS | 30.4 nm | 279° W | — | |
| 2MA7 | FALLS POND | 30.8 nm | 183° S | — | |
| 06NH | COLE FARM | 30.9 nm | 027° NE | — | |
| 21NH | PROPWASH | 31.0 nm | 030° NE | — | |
| MA64 | PHEASANT FLD | 31.7 nm | 138° SE | — |
Distances are great-circle from the airport reference point; bearings and winds are true. Conditions are each field's own METAR from the last two hours; a dash means it has none.