Nashua Airport at Boire Field is a public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Nashua, a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. Owned by the Nashua Airport Authority, It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a national reliever airport facility.For years, Nashua Airport was one of the busiest airports in New England in terms of take-offs and landings due to its use for flight training by adjacent Daniel Webster College. However, the school ended its pilot-training program in 2010, and traffic has fallen sharply since then.HistoryThe airport dates back to 1934, when the city of Nashua bought a small existing airport, which lacked a hangar and had a grass runway. Over the next several years Nashua, with federal help, paved the 2000ft runway and put up some buildings. According to the history in the airport web site, the hangar was constructed from bricks reused from a Nashua factory that burned in 1930 in what was known here as the Crown Hill Fire.In 1943 it was named Boire Field, after Ensign Paul Boire, who was Nashua's first casualty in World War II.The Nashua Airport Authority was established to oversee the airport in 1961. The New England Aeronautical Institute was founded here in 1965. The NEAI's Daniel Webster Junior College division was founded in 1967. The two schools merged in 1978 to form the current Daniel Webster College.
