Laurence G Hanscom Field
Bedford, United States — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from BED to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Bedford.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston, United States | BOS | 26 km | 27m |
| New York, United States | LGA | 286 km | 46m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 290 km | 47m |
| Newark, United States | EWR | 311 km | 48m |
| Montréal, Canada | YUL | 387 km | 54m |
| Philadelphia, United States | PHL | 439 km | 58m |
| Baltimore, United States | BWI | 582 km | 1h 09m |
| Washington, United States | DCA | 630 km | 1h 12m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 651 km | 1h 14m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 690 km | 1h 17m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BED
What is the airport code for Bedford?
Laurence G Hanscom Field uses the IATA code BED and the ICAO code KBED. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Laurence G Hanscom Field?
It sits at 42.4700° N, 71.2890° W, serving Bedford in United States, at an elevation of 133 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
