Essex County
CDW · KCDW · Caldwell, New Jersey · Essex County · map
Essex County is a public-use airport owned by Essex County Improvement Authority, 2 miles north of Caldwell, New Jersey, 172 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 4,552 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 221 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 117,016 takeoffs and landings a year. About 133 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Weather right now KCDW · observed 1:53 pm EDT (17:53 UTC), 46 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the northwest (320°) at 8 knots, gusting to 16
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a broken layer at 3,300 feet
- Temperature 70°F (21°C), dew point 56°F (13°C)
- Altimeter 29.81 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 KCDW 121753Z 32008G16KT 300V010 10SM BKN033 21/13 A2981 RMK AO2 SLP101 T02110133 10217 20128 58006
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.
Flight planning warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions · for planning, not a briefing
1 warning in force over this field:
- AIRMET TANGO 3W: moderate turbulence above 18,000 ft from 24,000 ft to 40,000 ft.
12 pilot reports within 100 nautical miles in the last three hours, the nearest three:
- urgent CRJ7 descending, 28 nm northeast, 11:46 am EDT (15:46 UTC): remarks: + of 10 knots reported by A CRJ7 during the descent runway 34.
as filed, and in English
HPN UUA /OV KHPN/TM 1546/FLUNKN/TP CRJ7/RM +/- OF 10 KTS REPORTED BY A CRJ7 DURD RWY 34
- Report
- an urgent report filed through HPN
- Where
- over KHPN
- Time
- 15:46 UTC
- Height
- height not given
- Aircraft
- CRJ7
- Remarks
- + of 10 knots reported by A CRJ7 during the descent runway 34
- E170 at 2,000 ft, 18 nm east, 12:46 pm EDT (16:46 UTC): no turbulence, overcast above 2,000 ft.
as filed, and in English
LGA UA /OV LGA360004/TM 1646/FL020/TP E170/SK OVC020/TB NEG
- Report
- a routine report filed through LGA
- Where
- 4 nm north (360°) of LGA
- Time
- 16:46 UTC
- Height
- at 2,000 ft
- Aircraft
- E170
- Sky
- overcast from 2,000 ft
- Turbulence
- none
- A320 climbing, 24 nm southeast, 12:45 pm EDT (16:45 UTC): a routine report with nothing remarked on.
as filed, and in English
JFK UA /OV JFK004005/TM 1645/FLDURC/TP A320/SK CLEAR
- Report
- a routine report filed through JFK
- Where
- 5 nm north (004°) of JFK
- Time
- 16:45 UTC
- Height
- during the climb
- Aircraft
- A320
- Sky
- clear
Winds aloft at the nearest forecast point (JFK, 27 nm southeast), for use 14:00–21:00 UTC: 3,000 ft: 360° at 20 kt; 6,000 ft: 340° at 23 kt, 11 °C; 9,000 ft: 340° at 26 kt, 8 °C; 12,000 ft: 350° at 26 kt, 3 °C; 18,000 ft: 350° at 30 kt, -8 °C.
1 temporary flight restriction within 50 nautical miles:
- 5/2811 NEW YORK, NY, Monday, October 20, 2025 through Tuesday, October 20, 2026 Local 14 nm southeast · security · until 20 October
The full picture: all warnings and reports, winds to 39,000 ft, radar and forecast charts
From the government's aviation weather service and the FAA's restriction list, refreshed every few minutes. This is for planning; the legal briefing comes from Flight Service or the FAA's own tools. Ordinary notices to air missions (closed runways, lights out) are not shown: the FAA's notice search is not open to sites like this one at this time.
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.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CDW · ICAO KCDW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Essex County Improvement Authority
- Elevation
- 172 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 11:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 11:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1938
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 4,552 × 80 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 10/28 | 3,719 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: threshold displaced 375 ft, 3,977 ft available for landing, tree 45 ft high 220 ft from the end
- Runway 22: LOCALIZER, PAPI, four lights on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 135 ft, 4,042 ft available for landing, trees 90 ft high 400 ft from the end
- Runway 10: threshold displaced 344 ft, 2,822 ft available for landing, tree 39 ft high 264 ft from the end
- Runway 28: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 550 ft, 2,822 ft available for landing, tree 46 ft high 423 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.8 | Caldwell |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Cdw and automated weather (ASOS) | 135.5 | Caldwell |
| Clearance delivery | 121.1 | Caldwell |
| Ground | 121.9 | Caldwell |
| Approach · WILKES-BARRE and star | 127.6 | Caldwell |
| Departure | 119.2 | Caldwell |
| Jaike and star | 132.8 | Caldwell |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 631-594-4523.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure)
- Also here
- avionics, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental, aircraft sales
- Notes
- landing fee charged
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Lincoln Park Airport (5 nm north), Morristown Municipal (8 nm southwest), Teterboro Airport (10 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in New Jersey · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Airport beacon located on top of control tower
- When the control tower closed, PAPI runway 22; high-intensity runway lights runway 04/22; medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 operates continuously. High-intensity runway lights runway 04/22; medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 preset to low intst. To incrs intst and activate runway end identifier lights runway 04 and 22 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude for large and turbojet aircraft 1527 feet above ground level; pattern altitude for light aircraft 1027 feet above ground level.
- Landing fee for all transient aircraft
- 6 feet fence, 200 feet from runway end, across centerline.
- 6 feet fence, 195 feet from runway end, 120 feet LT of centerline.
- Runway 22 PAPI unusable beyond 5 degrees right of centerline due to obstruction.
- Approach ratio 13:1 to displaced thld.
- Runway 10 approach slope 11:1 to displaced thld.
- Approach ratio 6:1 to displaced thld.
- Runway 28 approach ratio 28:1 to displaced thld.
- Local operations suspended from 11:00 pm to 7:00 am Monday through Saturday 2300 Saturday until 1000 Sunday.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 486 departures from CDW in those twelve months, carrying 45 passengers in 3,888 seats (1% filled), to 12 destinations on 2 airlines.
| Where to | Flights | Passengers | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essex County → New York CDW–NYS | 294 | 0 | Tropic Ocean Airways LLC |
| Essex County → East Hampton CDW–HTO | 93 | 0 | Tropic Ocean Airways LLC |
| Essex County → East Hampton Town CDW–JPX | 52 | 9 | Tropic Ocean Airways LLC |
| Essex County → Laurence G Hanscom Field CDW–BED | 16 | 17 | Tradewind Aviation |
| Essex County → Essex County CDW–CDW | 14 | 0 | Tropic Ocean Airways LLC |
| Essex County → Montauk CDW–MTP | 9 | 0 | Tropic Ocean Airways LLC |
| Essex County → Nantucket Memorial CDW–ACK | 3 | 4 | Tradewind Aviation |
| Essex County → Charlottesville-Albemarle CDW–CHO | 1 | 1 | Tradewind Aviation |
All 12 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 183 |
| multi-engine | 22 |
| jets | 6 |
| helicopters | 10 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 117,016, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 11 |
| air taxi and commuter | 6,146 |
| general aviation, travelling | 58,054 |
| general aviation, local | 51,544 |
| military | 1,261 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Caldwell from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Caldwell, New Jersey: 2 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.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in New Jersey.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
17 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 16 for private pilot, 16 for commercial and instrument, 9 for airline transport pilot, 13 for flight instructor, 3 for sport pilot, 2 for type ratings; 14 for airplanes, 10 for multi-engine airplanes, 2 for helicopters. Also nearby: 56 aviation medical examiners, 12 mechanic examiners, 2 airworthiness representatives (maintenance), 1 airworthiness representative (manufacturing), 8 engineering representatives, 1 parachute rigger examiner, 2 aircraft dispatcher examiners, 78 training center evaluators, 1 training center examiner, 1 administrative pilot examiner.
- William Gregory Hill private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Air Fleet Training · Fairfield, NJ (1 nm) · (732) 740-9506 · pilotgreg@verizon.net
- Ryan Andrew Ferguson private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · ATP Flight School · Morristown, NJ (8 nm) · (201) 247-2873 · info@ryanfergusondpe.com
- Thomas Maciej Jablonski instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates · Ramsey, NJ (13 nm) · (321) 591-6474 · jablonski.dpe@gmail.com
- Karl-John Bearnarth private pilot, commercial and instrument, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Somerset Air Service · Bedminster, NJ (22 nm) · (908) 612-0812 · kbearnarth@gmail.com
- Nicholas John Gregory private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · New Rochelle, NY (23 nm) · (914) 424-9030 · nikwxman@aol.com
- Robert Armindo Miranda private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Solberg Aviation Company · Readington, NJ (27 nm) · (973) 670-6343 · bmirandadpe@gmail.com
- John W Beck private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Princeton Airport · Princeton, NJ (35 nm) · (908) 512-9039 · john@usac.com
- Christopher Calvert private pilot, commercial and instrument, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Milford, PA (38 nm) · (602) 738-4541 · flyusn94@yahoo.com
All 179 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DPRE: Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner: tests candidates for the parachute rigger certificate.
- DADE: Designated Aircraft Dispatcher Examiner: tests candidates for the dispatcher certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
- Admin-PE: Administrative Pilot Examiner: handles certificate paperwork rather than flight tests.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 50 since 1982, 7 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Caldwell 2 aircraft · 2 piston singles
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 50 since 1982 · 7 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in New Jersey 1,187 since 1982 · 135 in the last ten years
- New York (NYS) 294 flights in twelve months · Tropic Ocean Airways LLC
- East Hampton (HTO) 93 flights in twelve months · Tropic Ocean Airways LLC
- East Hampton Town (JPX) 52 flights in twelve months · Tropic Ocean Airways LLC
- Laurence G Hanscom Field (BED) 16 flights in twelve months · Tradewind Aviation
- Essex County (CDW) 14 flights in twelve months · Tropic Ocean Airways LLC
- Montauk (MTP) 9 flights in twelve months · Tropic Ocean Airways LLC
- Nantucket Memorial (ACK) 3 flights in twelve months · Tradewind Aviation
- Charlottesville-Albemarle (CHO) 1 flights in twelve months · Tradewind Aviation
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in New Jersey 40 landing places
- New Jersey 3,024 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CDW.json.
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 9, 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.