Block Island State Airport

Block Island State Airport
Block Island State Airport July 2015
IATA: BID ICAO: KBID FAA LID: BID
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	State of Rhode Island
Operator	Rhode Island Airport Corporation
Serves	Block Island, Rhode Island
Opened	July 15, 1950 (74 years ago) (1950-07-15)
Time zone	EST (UTC-05:00:00)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-04:00:00)
Elevation AMSL	108 ft / 33 m
Coordinates	41°10′05″N 071°34′40″W / 41.16806°N 71.57778°W / 41.16806; -71.57778
Website	flyblockislandairport.com
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 10/28 2,502 763 Asphalt
Statistics (2020)
Aircraft operations (year ending 2/29/2020) 17,014 Based aircraft (2020) 4
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Block Island State Airport (IATA: BID^[2], ICAO: KBID, FAA LID: BID) is a public use airport located on Block Island, in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The airport is owned by the State of Rhode Island.^[1] It is primarily a general aviation airport, but there is also scheduled airline service to Westerly State Airport. The airport opened in 1950.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 10,384 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,^[3] 8,516 enplanements in 2009, and 9,821 in 2010.^[4] It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027 in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.^[5]

Block Island State Airport is one of six active airports operated by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, the other five being T.F. Green State Airport, Newport State Airport, North Central State Airport, Quonset State Airport and Westerly State Airport.

Block Island State Airport covers an area of 136 acres (55 ha; 0.55 km²) at an elevation of 108 ft (33 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 10/28 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,502 by 100 ft (763 by 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending 29 February 2020, the airport had 17,014 aircraft operations, an average of 47 per day: 72% air taxi, 28% general aviation, and <1% military. At that time there were 4 aircraft based at this airport: 3 single-engine and 1 multi-engine.^[1]

• On November 28, 1989, a New England Airlines Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander crashed at sea 4.1 miles NW off Block Island during an overwater flight on a dark moonless night under a cloud layer. The cause of the accident was undetermined. All 8 passengers and crew perished.^[8]

• List of airports in Rhode Island

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Block Island State Airport.

• Block Island State Airport (BID) page from Rhode Island Airport Corp.
• Aerial image as of March 1995 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for BID, effective January 23, 2025
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for BID
  • AirNav airport information for KBID
  • ASN accident history for BID
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures