Ellington Airport
7B9 · Ellington, Connecticut · Tolland County · map
Ellington Airport is a public-use airport owned by Connecticut Parachutists INC, 2 miles north of Ellington, Connecticut, 253 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 1,800 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 7B9
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Connecticut Parachutists INC
- Elevation
- 253 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1968
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 1,800 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 01: trees 61 ft high 384 ft from the end
- Runway 19: trees 35 ft high 401 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 |
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Aircraft registered in Ellington from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Ellington, Connecticut: 8 piston singles, 1 drone. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Connecticut.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 19 since 1982, 2 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
- VFR use only.
- Extensive helicopter training operations.
- NON-STD low-intensity runway lights due to spacing, threshold lights outboard of runway.
- 6 feet sign, 66 feet dstc, 103 feet L.
- 25 feet trees, 0-199 feet dstc, 105 feet R.
- Markings faded.
- Markings faded.
- NON-STD threshold lights.
- Aircraft traffic pattern on east side of airport only. Helicopter traffic pattern on west side of airport only.
- Taxiway pavement failed, extensive cracking, patches, loose aggregate and small stones.
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.