The Boston Consolidated TRACON (A90) is located in Merrimack, New Hampshire. A90 opened in 2004 after 8 years of development. The A90 function transferred to the new Boston Consolidated TRACON on February 22, 2004. The MHT function transferred over on March 7, 2004. Manchester TRACON used to be located at Manchester Airport below the old ATCT. Boston TRACON used to be located at the Logan International Airport Control Tower before being consolidated. The new facility is . A Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON, is responsible for descending airplanes from the ARTCC and lining them up for landing at their destination airport, as well as climbing departures before handing off to the ARTCC.
The primary responsibility of the Boston TRACON is the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of arrival, departure, and en-route traffic. A90 is responsible for one main airport, Boston Logan International Airport. Additionally, A90 is responsible for dozens of smaller but busy fields, including Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Hanscom Field, Norwood Memorial Airport, Beverly Municipal Airport, Lawrence Municipal Airport, Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, and Nashua Airport.
The Boston TRACON is one of six "Medium TRACONs" currently existing throughout the United States. The others include the Salt Lake TRACON, the Bradley TRACON, the Indianapolis TRACON, the Pensacola TRACON, and the Des Moines TRACON.
In February 2018 the Boston Consolidated TRACON absorbed the functions of the Cape TRACON located down at OTIS Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod.
Yearly traffic counts for A90 from the FAA Air Traffic Activity Data System website.
2004 - 692,627
2005 - 729,625
2006 - 710,765
2007 - 693,158
2008 - 639,782
2009 - 603,131
2010 - 634,151
2011 - 626,137
2012 - 595,823
2013 - 603,974
2014 - 604,516
2015 - 615,078
2016 - 639,759
2017 - 658,524
2018 - 805,780
2019 - 824,230
2020 - 529,574
2021 - 672,401
2022 - 775,698
OPERATIONS ROOM
General
The Operations room is located on the second floor of the facility. Below the operations control room on the first floor is the electronics room where all of the computer and other electronic equipment is housed, with extra space for expansion or testing of new equipment. The Facility is backed up by two 1250 kW diesel generators and 4 UPS units (two 225kVA, two 40kVA).
Every workstation in the control room is equipped with the Systems Atlanta ACE-IDS IDS5 Software Suite.
BCT utilizes the Raytheon Standard Terminal Automation replacement system at all of its positions.
Also at each position is a computer touch screen which is the Enhanced Terminal Voice Switch (ETVS) built by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, this handles all of the ground to air and ground to ground communications.
Wall displays
A90 is equipped with multiple plasma flat-screen television screens which are used to display up to 16 different types of information needed by supervisory, traffic management and controllers-in-charge ranging from ETMS to Weather. Although they can be set to display almost anything, they will usually be set to one of three things. Commonly, a map of the Northeast United States will be displayed that shows all traffic landing or departing at Boston or Boston Satellite fields. This allows the controllers to look up at the screen and quickly tell if there is a rush about to come. Also commonly displayed is the IDS5 display. This information is also shown on a small touch-screen above each controller's station. Also, commonly displayed above the Initial Departure sector is a live video feed from Boston Tower showing the departure strip bay. This camera system is used to satisfy the requirement for "non-verbal rolling notification" as required by FAAO 7110.65. What is displayed on each screen can be changed at one of the center console positions, which is controlled with a computer touch screen.