List of airports in Rhode Island

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The list of airports in Rhode Island gives an overview of all airports in the US state. The list contains all public and military airports. Private airfields are included if they were previously publicly used, commercial flight movements are registered there by the FAA or the airport has been assigned an IATA code.

List of airports

Note: Airports in bold are served by commercial airlines.

city FAA IATA ICAO Airport Usage * Passengers (2006)
Providence PVD PVD KPVD Theodore Francis Green State Airport PR 2,588,992
Block Island BID BID KBID Block Island State Airport CS 7,595
Westerly WST WST KWST Westerly State Airport CS 8,177
North Kingstown OQU KOQU Quonset State Airport RL 78
Pawtucket SFZ SFZ KSFZ North Central State Airport RL 6th
Newport UUU NPT KUUU Newport State Airport GA 62
West Kingston 08R Richmond Airport

* The FAA defines different categories for the use of airports:

  • PR: Commercial Service - Primary : Publicly owned airports that are served regularly and whose passenger numbers are over 10,000 per year
  • CS: Commercial Service - Non-Primary : Publicly owned airports that are regularly served and whose passenger numbers reach at least 2,500 per year
  • RL: Reliever : Alternate airports that are supposed to relieve commercial airports when there is a high volume of flights
  • GA: General Aviation : Airports for general aviation

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