Hartford-Brainard Airport
HFD · KHFD · Hartford, Connecticut · Hartford County · map
Hartford-Brainard Airport is a public-use airport owned by Connecticut Airport Authority, 3 miles southeast of Hartford, Connecticut, 18 feet above sea level. It has 5 runways; the longest, 02/20, is 4,417 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KHFD · observed 2:53 pm EDT (18:53 UTC), 62 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the west-northwest (300°) at 10 knots, gusting to 21
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 60°F (16°C), dew point 29°F (-2°C)
- Altimeter 30.03 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KHFD 061853Z 30010G21KT 10SM CLR 16/M02 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP170 T01561017 $
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HFD · ICAO KHFD
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Connecticut Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 18 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 12:00 am
- Attended
- April to November, every day, 7:00 am to 9:00 pm; December to March, every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- 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 1940
Runways 5
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 4,417 × 150 ft | Asphalt, fair | High-intensity lights |
| NE/SW | 2,323 × 150 ft | Grass | |
| 11/29 | 2,314 × 71 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| H1 | 70 × 77 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| H2 | 44 × 44 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 02: LDA, PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 411 ft, trees 100 ft high 1,263 ft from the end
- Runway 20: PAPI, four lights on the right, threshold displaced 560 ft, trees 80 ft high 238 ft from the end
- Runway NE: trees 68 ft high 624 ft from the end
- Runway SW: trees 91 ft high 1,885 ft from the end
- Runway 11: trees 56 ft high 550 ft from the end
- Runway 29: threshold displaced 265 ft, trees 88 ft high 714 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.6 | Brainard |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 126.45 | Brainard |
| Clearance delivery · Ground When tower closed | 121.6 | Brainard |
| Approach and departure | 127.8 | Brainard |
| Hfd and vot | 108.2 | |
| Stela and star | 125.35 | Brainard |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 860-952-9954.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Hartford from the FAA register
37 aircraft are registered to owners in Hartford, Connecticut: 16 business jets, 9 piston singles, 5 piston twins, 4 helicopters, 1 glider. 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 · 23 since 1982, 4 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.
- Airport closed to air carrier operations.
- Birds and deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- When the control tower closed, activate runway end identifier lights runways 02 and 20; high-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 02 and 20 operates continuously.
- Landing fee for bus/corporate and revenue producing aircraft.
- 3 feet gnd, 0 feet dstc, 150 feet R.
- 27 feet berm, 0-199 feet dstc, 171-57 feet L.
- Runway 20 PAPI unusable beyond 7 degreess L of rcl.
- Approach ratio 20:1 to dthr.
- Approach ratio 16:1 to dthr.
- Approach ratio 11:1 to dthr.
- Hngr (26 feet high at 290 degreess west) 234 feet from helicopter.
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.