List of Airports in Rhode Island - Airports

Airports

This list contains the following information:

• City served - The city generally associated with the airport. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve.

• FAA - The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

• IATA - The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.

• ICAO - The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

• Airport name - The official airport name. Those shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines.

• Role - One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2009-2013 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Report:
  • P: Commercial Service - Primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types:
    • L: Large Hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
    • M: Medium Hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
    • S: Small Hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
    • N: Non-Hub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
  • CS: Commercial Service - Non-Primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
  • R: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
  • GA: General Aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.

• Enpl. - The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2008, as per FAA records.

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