Westover Metropolitan Airport / Westover Air Reserve Base

Westover Metropolitan Airport / Westover Air Reserve Base (CEF) is a medium airport in Chicopee, MA. It carries the IATA code CEF. It sits in North America.

Westover Metropolitan Airport / Westover Air Reserve Base is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 11,597-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 11,597 ft (3,535 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.

Westover Metropolitan Airport / Westover Air Reserve Base sits near sea level at 241 ft.

Local operations run on America/New_York. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 0 departing and 1 arriving private-jet legs at CEF across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like CEF are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Westover Air Reserve Base is an Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) installation located in the Massachusetts communities of Chicopee and Ludlow, near the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. Established at the outset of World War II, today Westover is the largest Air Force Reserve base in the United States, home to approximately 5,500 military and civilian personnel, and covering 2,500 acres (10 km2). Until 2011, it was a backup landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle and in the past few years has expanded to include a growing civilian access airport sharing Westover's military-maintained runways. The installation was named for Major General Oscar Westover who was commanding officer of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s.