Teterboro Airport

Teterboro is the private-aviation front door to New York City. It is just across the Hudson in Bergen County, New Jersey, and for a traveler heading into the city it is closer to Midtown than any of the region's commercial airports. There are no airline terminals and no scheduled service, only private flights. Most of the metro's empty-leg activity begins or ends on this side of the river.

Who flies here

TEB is almost purely business and private aviation, and one of the busiest such airports in the country. The price of the address is congestion. It is a curfew-conscious, slot-aware field, and flexibility on timing pays off in the queue.

On the field

Your flight leaves from an FBO, a private terminal, and Teterboro has several of them. As of mid-2026 the FBOs at Teterboro include Signature Aviation, which operates multiple terminals here and absorbed the historic Meridian FBO, along with Atlantic Aviation and Jet Aviation. Which one is the operator's call. You are through it and airborne in minutes.

Teter, 1917

Teterboro is the oldest operating airport in the New York area. Walter C. Teter acquired the property in 1917, and the first flight from the present site was made in 1919. Between the wars it was the base of the Dutch designer Anthony Fokker's American operations, and in 1926 Colonial Air Transport flew the first private air-mail from here. The Port Authority bought the field in 1949 and has run it ever since, apart from a long Pan Am-era lease.

FBO and history details were checked mid-2026 against the airport's and operators' own published information. Tenants change, so confirm the departure terminal with your operator.