Teterboro Airport

Teterboro is the business-aviation front door to New York City. Just across the Hudson in Bergen County, New Jersey, it sits closer to Midtown than any of the region's commercial airports for a traveler heading into the city — no airline terminals, no scheduled service, just private flights. For charter, that means it's where most of the metro's empty-leg activity begins or ends.

Who flies here

TEB is almost purely business and private aviation, and one of the busiest such airports in the country. The trade-off for its convenience is congestion and a curfew-conscious, slot-aware environment — exactly the kind of high-demand field where flexibility on timing pays off.

On the field

As of mid-2026 the FBOs (the private terminals your flight actually uses) at Teterboro include Signature Aviation — which operates multiple terminals here and absorbed the historic Meridian FBO — along with Atlantic Aviation and Jet Aviation. Your operator tells you which one to arrive at; you're through it and airborne in minutes.

A bit of history

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 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 — with a long Pan Am-era lease in between — ever since.

FBO and history details were last verified mid-2026 against the airport's and operators' own published information; tenants and amenities change, so confirm the departure terminal with your operator.