Westchester County Airport (IATA: HPN, ICAO: KHPN, FAA LID: HPN) is a county-owned public-use airport in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located three nautical miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of White Plains, in the towns of Harrison, North Castle and Rye Brook.
It serves the areas of Westchester, a northern suburb of New York City, as well as Fairfield County, Connecticut, as the New York-Connecticut state border coincides with the airport's eastern limits. It also serves the New York metropolitan area, as it is about 33 miles (53 km) north of Midtown Manhattan.
The Westchester County Airport currently has twelve commercial airlines flying to fifteen destinations around the United States and the Bahamas.
This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 904,482 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 964,927 enplanements in 2009, and 999,831 in 2010.
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