# New Bedford Regional Airport (EWB / KEWB)

**New Bedford Regional Airport** (IATA: EWB, ICAO: KEWB) is a medium airport in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. It opened in Apr 1942. It has 2 runways; the longest is 5,400 ft (1,646 m). In 2025 it handled 6 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: EWB / KEWB
- FAA: EWB
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
- Opened: Apr 1942
- Elevation: 79 ft / 24 m
- Coordinates: 41.6761, -70.9569
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 5,400 ft / 1,646 m
- Instrument procedures: 6 approaches, 1 arrival
- Passengers: 6,067 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/New_York
- Website: http://flyewb.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bedford_Regional_Airport (6 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7005468
- Weather station: KEWB
- Ident: KEWB

## Timeline

- Apr 1942: New Bedford Regional Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 05/23 | 5,400 ft / 1,646 m | 150 ft / 46 m | Asphalt | 038° / 218° | yes |
| 14/32 | 5,002 ft / 1,525 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Asphalt | 128° / 308° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00644AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 14,563 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 14,105 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 12,015 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 15,572 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 8,456 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 3,628 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 6,705 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 4,184 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 3,198 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 3,762 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 6,067 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

2 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [MVY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmvy.md) Martha's Vineyard Airport · United States · 26 mi / 42 km · Cape Air
- [ACK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kack.md) Nantucket Memorial Airport · United States · 55 mi / 88 km · Cape Air

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- 9K [Cape Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/cape-air) · 2

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 6K (2025) | #2,878 of 3,974 | #739 in North America | #531 in US |
| Longest runway | 5,400 ft / 1,646 m | =5,613 of 29,858 | =1,817 in North America | =1,458 in US |
| Elevation | 79 ft / 24 m | =37,802 of 43,403 | =17,139 in North America | =14,270 in US |
| Age | Opened 1942 | =1,791 of 15,079 | =924 in North America | =885 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/D | PROVIDENCE APP/DEP | 128.700 |
| ATIS | ATIS | 126.850 |
| CTAF | CTAF | 118.100 |
| GND | GND | 121.900 |
| TWR | TWR | 118.100 |
| UNIC | UNICOM | 122.950 |

## Nearby airports

- [NPT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kuuu.md) Newport State Airport · 19 mi / 31 km
- [NCO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/koqu.md) Quonset State Airport · 24 mi / 39 km
- [PVD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kpvd.md) Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport · 24 mi / 39 km
- [HYA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/khya.md) Cape Cod Gateway Airport · 35 mi / 56 km
- [OWD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kowd.md) Norwood Memorial Airport · 37 mi / 60 km
- [BOS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbos.md) Boston Logan International Airport · 47 mi / 76 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: “New Bedford Regional Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Bedford_Regional_Airport&oldid=1368496304), revision of 9 Aug 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/kewb/data