Simsbury Airport
4B9 · Simsbury, Connecticut · Hartford County · map
Simsbury Airport is a public-use airport owned by Airport Realty Assoc. LLC, 3 miles northeast of Simsbury, Connecticut, 195 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 03/21, is 2,205 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 4B9
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Airport Realty Assoc. LLC
- Elevation
- 195 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1942
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 2,205 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 03: trees 75 ft high 780 ft from the end
- Runway 21: threshold displaced 270 ft, trees 60 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 |
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Aircraft registered in Simsbury from the FAA register
17 aircraft are registered to owners in Simsbury, Connecticut: 17 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Connecticut.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 14 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport - birds particularly in approach to runway 03.
- Dusk to dawn. Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 3/21 safety barrier 15 feet northeast threshold barricade not lighted.
- Non-standard thld lights green/green.
- 70 feet trees, 25-50 feet dstc, 123 feet R.
- 40 feet trees, 0 feet dstc, 123 feet L.
- Approach ratio 21:1 to dthr.
- Runway 03 has an UP-HILL grade.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.