Beverly Regional Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Beverly | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Beverly, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Beverly,Danvers andWenham, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 107 ft / 33 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°35′03″N070°54′58″W / 42.58417°N 70.91611°W /42.58417; -70.91611 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | BeverlyAirport.com | ||||||||||||||
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| Source:Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||||||||||||||
Beverly Regional Airport (IATA:BVY,ICAO:KBVY,FAALID:BVY) is a city-owned, public-useairport located inBeverly,Danvers andWenham, Massachusetts, inEssex County, three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Beverly'scentral business district.[1]
TheNational Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015categorized it as areliever airport,[2] which means it is available to relieveLogan International Airport of smallgeneral aviation type aircraft during Logan's peak traffic times.
Beverly Regional Airport was built in 1928 on the farm of Adna and Addie Swift through the efforts of the Beverly Aero Club and the Beverly Chamber of Commerce. The City of Beverly took the land for a municipal airport by eminent domain from multiple owners in 1940 and 1941. TheU.S. Navy operated the airport duringWorld War II under a joint-use agreement asNaval Auxiliary Air Facility Beverly. It existed as an auxiliary air facility ofNaval Air Station Squantum.
It was commissioned on 15 May 1943 and the airfield was upgraded with a new asphalt runway. The Navy built a control tower, a barracks, and other structures and consisted of four officers and sixty enlisted men. The field provided touch and go practice for students atNaval Air Station Squantum as well asFleet Air Arm student pilots. Planes fromCoast Guard Air Station Salem also used the facility for maritime patrol, as well as a detachment fromVS-31, which flew anti-submarine patrols withDouglas SBD-5 aircraft.[3]
It was decommissioned as a military facility on August 1, 1945. Ownership of the airport was transferred back to the City of Beverly in 1950.
Beverly Regional Airport covers an area of 470acres (190ha) at anelevation of 107 feet (33 m) abovemean sea level. It has tworunways withasphalt surfaces: 9/27 is 4,755 by 100 feet (1,449 x 30 m) and 16/34 is 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2022, the airport had 83,897 aircraft operations, an average of 230 per day: 97%general aviation, 3%air taxi, and <1%military. At that time 98 aircraft were based at this airport: 85 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, 5helicopter, 2jet, and 1 ultralight.[1]
Civil Air Patrol Squadron MA-019, Beverly Composite Squadron, is headquartered at Beverly Regional Airport.
On July 16, 1936,bandleaderOrville Knapp, brother of actressEvalyn Knapp, died in a plane crash here after he misjudged a landing maneuver and stalled in mid-air.[4]
SCCA auto races were held at Beverly Airport in 1955 and 1956. The inaugural races were held on July 4, 1955.[5]Phil Hill was the 1955 overall champion.[6] The 1956 champion wasCarroll Shelby.[7]
On May 9, 1989, Alfred James Hunter III, a postal worker who had shot and killed his ex-wife earlier that evening, stole an airplane (aCessna 152 two-seat trainer) at gunpoint from a flight instructor. During the flight, which stretched from Danvers toDuxbury, Hunter fired his gun at the ground below, buzzed the South Postal Annex in Boston several times, and briefly touched down at Logan Airport before taking off again. He landed at Logan more than three hours later and was arrested after a minor struggle with police.[8][9]
A scene in the 2000 filmThe Perfect Storm, was shot at Beverly Airport.[10]
In May 2008, a scene for the movieThe Proposal was filmed at Beverly Airport.[10]
On August 27, 2010, Michael Costales, age 30, a flight instructor at Beverly Regional Airport, was struck and killed by an aircraft's moving propeller. Costales had taxied his aircraft out to the run-up area of runway 34 at the airport, the active runway at the time. At about 12:30 PM, Costales got out of his Piper PA 28 Cherokee aircraft to assist another flight instructor and his student with fastening the canopy of their PiperSport aircraft. As Costales got out of his aircraft and walked toward the other aircraft, he was struck by his aircraft's propeller and killed instantly. The student pilot in the PiperSport aircraft declared an emergency with the Control Tower, who then called 911. The airport was subsequently shut down for several hours as an investigation was conducted.[11]
On June 19, 2025, aMooney M20F crashed on Sam Fonzo Drive upon departure from Beverly Regional Airport.[12] Both occupants, Joseph Puciloski and Geoffrey Andrews, died in the crash.
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