Nantucket Memorial Airport
Nantucket Memorial Airport
Nantucket Memorial Airport (IATA: ACK, ICAO: KACK, FAA LID: ACK) is a public airport on the south side of the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by the Town of Nantucket and is located three miles (5 km) southeast of the town center. It is the second-busiest airport in the state, after Logan International Airport, due to intense corporate travel to and from the island in the high season.
Location
41.253°N, 70.060°O · 14 m s. n. m. (47 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 7 Official publication
Tower
Ground
Clearance delivery
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
In the late 1930s, Leslie Holm, a farmer in Nobadeer, plowed over and smoothed some of his cornfields with the help of David Raub, a former test pilot who had moved to Nantucket, and together they formed the Nobadeer Flying Service with three small planes they had bought for charter and instruction. Soon, they began allowing the Town of Nantucket to use fields on his property as an airfield. Holm's farmhouse, located at the intersection of Old South and Nobadeer Farm Roads, is still standing today, although airport buildings have been built around it.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy took control of the airport and operated it as Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Nantucket. The Navy constructed temporary bunkers and buildings, of which the buildings were torn down after the war. The bunkers, which were constructed using concrete and steel, are currently used for airport storage.
The airport was returned to the Town of Nantucket on June 20, 1946 and on August 25, 1946 it was dedicated as Nantucket Memorial Airport to honor the 11 Nantucket men who lost their lives in the war and all the people from Nantucket who served in the war.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 67 aircraft documented between 2019 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 7
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: MassDOT · Public domain · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACK
MLA
“Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACK. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACK.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACK (Accessed: 17 October 2026).
BibTeX
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title = {{Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACK},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACK}},
urldate = {2026-10-17},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}Wikipedia
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