# Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport (BHB / KBHB)

**Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport** (IATA: BHB, ICAO: KBHB) is a medium airport in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States. It opened in Apr 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 5,200 ft (1,585 m). In 2025 it handled 19 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbhb

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: BHB / KBHB
- FAA: BHB
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Bar Harbor, Maine, United States
- Opened: Apr 1940
- Elevation: 83 ft / 25 m
- Coordinates: 44.4500, -68.3615
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 5,200 ft / 1,585 m
- Instrument procedures: 3 approaches
- Passengers: 18,613 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/New_York
- Website: http://www.bhbairport.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_County%E2%80%93Bar_Harbor_Airport (8 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3887778
- Weather station: KBHB
- Ident: KBHB

## Timeline

- Apr 1940: Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 04/22 | 5,200 ft / 1,585 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 025° / 205° | yes |
| 17/35 | 3,363 ft / 1,025 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Asphalt | 150° / 330° |  |

- 17/35 slopes 1.1%: threshold 35 at 43 ft / 13 m, threshold 17 at 79 ft / 24 m.

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 16,050 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 16,783 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 16,521 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 15,144 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 18,588 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 5,441 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 16,677 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 16,424 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 19,694 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 21,385 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 18,613 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [BOS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbos.md) Boston Logan International Airport · United States · 196 mi / 316 km · Cape Air

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from BHB, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 9K [Cape Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/cape-air) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 19K (2025) | #2,468 of 3,974 | #580 in North America | #400 in US |
| Longest runway | 5,200 ft / 1,585 m | =5,980 of 29,858 | =1,954 in North America | =1,575 in US |
| Elevation | 83 ft / 25 m | #37,594 of 43,403 | #17,041 in North America | #14,197 in US |
| Age | Opened 1940 | =1,114 of 15,079 | =366 in North America | =338 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/D | BANGOR APP/DEP | 124.500 |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 118.025 |
| CLD | CLNC DEL | 119.900 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 123.000 |

## Nearby airports

- [BGR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbgr.md) Bangor International Airport · 34 mi / 54 km
- [RKD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/krkd.md) Knox County Regional Airport · 45 mi / 73 km
- [AUG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kaug.md) Augusta State Airport · 71 mi / 115 km
- [NHZ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbxm.md) Brunswick Executive Airport · 87 mi / 140 km

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Hancock County–Bar Harbor Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hancock_County–Bar_Harbor_Airport&oldid=1375106673), revision of 15 Sep 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbhb/data