# Floyd Bennett Field, New York, United States

**Floyd Bennett Field** was an airport in New York, United States. It opened on 23 May 1931.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/us-12512

## At a glance

- Type: Closed airport
- Serves: New York, United States
- Opened: 23 May 1931
- Elevation: 16 ft / 5 m
- Coordinates: 40.5910, -73.8910
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/New_York
- Website: https://www.nps.gov/gate/learn/historyculture/floyd-bennett-field.htm
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Bennett_Field (10 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430350
- Weather station: KJFK · WMO 74486
- Ident: US-12512

## Timeline

- 23 May 1931: Floyd Bennett Field opens.
- 23 Dec 1940: 1940 Floyd Bennett Field midair crash. 2 killed.
- 11 Apr 1980: Listed as National Register of Historic Places listed place.

## Nearby airports

- [JFK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kjfk.md) John F. Kennedy International Airport · 6.7 mi / 11 km
- [LGA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/klga.md) LaGuardia Airport · 13 mi / 21 km
- [EWR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kewr.md) Newark Liberty International Airport · 16 mi / 26 km
- [TEB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kteb.md) Teterboro Airport · 20 mi / 32 km
- [FRG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kfrg.md) Republic Airport · 27 mi / 43 km
- [MMU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmmu.md) Morristown Municipal Airport · 31 mi / 50 km

## In collections

- [Closed and historic](https://dromopedia.com/collections/closed) #83

## Sources

- [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)
- [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/us-12512/data