ISP

Long Island MacArthur Airport

ICAO KISP40.7963°N 73.1017°W99 ft / 30 mMedium airport
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Long Island MacArthur Airport (IATA: ISP, ICAO: KISP) is a medium airport in Islip, New York, United States. It opened in May 1943. It has 3 runways; the longest is 7,006 ft (2,135 m). It is operated by Islip. In 2025 it handled 1.6 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1943–1955
MAY 1943
OpenedLong Island MacArthur Airport opens.
04 APR 1955
Disaster1955 MacArthur Airport United Airlines crash.3 killed
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · 2 helipads · FAA diagram PDF
Long Island MacArthur Airport Terminal (ISP)
06/24045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH7,006 ft2,135 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
15R/33L135° / 315° · LIT
LENGTH5,186 ft1,581 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
15L/33R135° / 315°
LENGTH3,175 ft968 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
1.3M
1.2M
1.2M
1.3M
1.6M
1.6M
534K
1.1M
1.2M
1.3M
1.4M
1.6M
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Routes

15 destinations · 1 country
Year-round12
BOSBoston Logan International AirportUnited States · Cape Air246 km153 miORFNorfolk International AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways510 km317 miRDURaleigh-Durham International AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways738 km459 miILMWilmington International AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways840 km522 miMYRMyrtle Beach International AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways944 km587 miCHSCharleston International AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways1,073 km667 miMCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways1,565 km972 miVRBVero Beach Regional AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways1,607 km999 miTPATampa International AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways1,665 km1,035 miDJTPresident Donald J. Trump International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways1,696 km1,054 miFLLFort Lauderdale Hollywood International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways1,762 km1,095 miRSWSouthwest Florida International AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways1,774 km1,102 mi
Most destinationsBreeze Airways 10Frontier Airlines 5JetBlue Airways 5Cape Air 1Avelo Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ISP. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Long Island MacArthur Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1.6M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#654of 3,974 · #158 North America · #112 USLongest runway7,006 ft2,135 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,450of 29,823 · #799 North America · #602 USElevation99 ft30 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,898of 43,341 · =16,752 North America · =14,013 USAgeOpened 19432026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,016of 15,079 · =1,078 North America · =1,034 USRunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =81 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

9 channels
A/DNEW YORK APP/DEP118.000
ATISATIS120.725
CLDCLNC DEL121.850
CTAFCTAF119.300
GNDGND135.300
OPSGUARD OPS45.000
RDONEW YORK RDO122.600
TWRTWR119.300
UNICUNICOM122.950