The Yankee Terminal Radar Approach Control (Yankee TRACON) is a terminal

Terminal Control Center

A terminal radar approach control is an air traffic control facility usually located within the vicinity of a large airport. Typically, the TRACON controls aircraft within a 20-50 nautical mile radius of the major airport and a number of "satellite airports" between surface and up to between and...

 air traffic control

Air traffic control

Air traffic control is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The primary purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other...

 center located in Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Windsor Locks is a town located in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 12,043. It is the site of Bradley International Airport, which serves the Greater Hartford-Springfield region. It is also the site of the New England Air Museum...

 operated by the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration is the national aviation authority of the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, it has authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S...

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Located at the Bradley International Airport

Bradley International Airport

Bradley International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport located in Windsor Locks on the border with East Granby and Suffield, in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is owned by the State of Connecticut....

 (BDL), Yankee TRACON is a consolidated TRACON responsible for the airspace roughly in a 40-mile radius around BDL at or below 10,000 feet. This airspace includes airports such as Hartford-Brainard Airport

Hartford-Brainard Airport

- See also :* Bradley International Airport * Connecticut World War II Army Airfields- External links :* at Connecticut DOT website...

 (HFD), Meriden Markham Municipal Airport

Meriden Markham Municipal Airport

Meriden Markham Municipal Airport is a public-use airport located three miles southwest of the central business district of Meriden, a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. This general aviation airport is owned by City of Meriden....

 (MMK), Barnes Municipal Airport

Barnes Municipal Airport

Barnes Municipal Airport , also known as Westfield-Barnes Airport, is a tower-controlled joint civil-military public airport located three miles north of the central business district of Westfield, a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. This airport is owned by City of Westfield...

 (BAF), Westover Metropolitan Airport

Westover Metropolitan Airport

For the military airport use of this facility, see Westover Joint Air Reserve BaseWestover Metropolitan Airport is a civilian airline, and general aviation airport located in the Massachusetts communities of Chicopee, Granby, and Ludlow, near the cities of Springfield and Holyoke, Massachusetts...

 (CEF), Worcester Regional Airport (ORH), Windham Airport

Windham Airport

Windham Airport is a public airport located three miles northeast of the central business district of Willimantic, a city in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. It is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation ....

 (IJD), Northampton Airport

Northampton Airport

Northampton Airport is a public airport located one mile northeast of central business district of Northampton, a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA....

 (7B2), Skylark Airpark

Skylark Airpark

Skylark Airport , is located in Warehouse Point, Connecticut, United States.-Facilities and Aircraft:Skylark Airport is situated two miles east of the central business district, and contains one runway...

 (7B6), Ellington Airport

Ellington Airport (Connecticut)

Ellington Airport is a privately-owned and -operated airport located Ellington, Connecticut, a town in Tolland County, Connecticut.The airport, which is open to the public,is one of two Connecticut airports that is state certified as a parachute jump zone. Connecticut Parachutists Inc...

 (7B9), Robertson Field (4B8), and Simsbury Airport

Simsbury Airport

Simsbury Airport is a public use airport located in Simsbury and East Granby, both towns in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is privately owned by the Airport Realty Association, LLC. The airport is operated by the Simsbury Flying Club, a not-for-profit group that operates an FBO at...

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Yankee TRACON has five operating radar positions and is staffed with about 31 controllers and three Front Line Managers (supervisors). During calendar year 2008, Yankee TRACON worked 245,000 IFR operations.