Private jets are super emitters.

Know the Impacts

Let’s put a private jet’s carbon footprint in context.

Just one 2.5 hour flight of an average private jet from Hanscom Field emits roughly 24 tons of CO2e.

With about 4-5 passengers per flight, private business jets are considered to be the most egregious form of travel per capita based on their carbon footprint. A typical car emits about 5 tons of CO2 per year while a typical home is responsible for 25 of CO2 per year.

A typical 5KW Massachusetts residential solar array offsets 2 tons per year whereas the total installed solar cells in Concord, MA is 11.2MW offsetting 4,100 tons per year. We cannot offset our way out of this.

Massport takes the position that current operations and future plans for Hanscom all have no significant impact on the surrounding communities or the natural and historic sites. The surrounding towns, state and federal legislators, representatives of the local historic and natural sites, and community groups disagree, correctly arguing such claims of no impact are unfounded in science and contrary to common sense.

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Hanscom Field is in a unique & vital location.

The proposed expansion at Hanscom Field means impacting the surrounding historic and natural resources of local, state, and national significance.

Immediately adjacent to the airport are The Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge and the Minuteman National Historical Park.

Within the nearby flight paths of the airport are: Walden Pond and Walden Woods, the Concord River parts of the SUASCO watershed, Historic Lexington Green, Historic Downtown Concord, The North Bridge, and Estabrook Woods Conservation Area as well as the historic homes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, and many dozens of locations on the national register of historic places.

These resources cannot be shielded from airport impacts or relocated. Together, they draw millions of tourists per year to Massachusetts and provide a major contribution to the Massachusetts economy.