Westchester Co

White Plains, NY USA (KHPN / HPN)

White Plains, NY is the butt of many New Yorker’s jokes due to the fact that it is nearby, yet world’s apart in terms of the flavor of NY City. Originally the home of the Weckquaeskeck tribe, White Plains is today a busy city in its own right. As members of the Mohican Nation, they called their home Quarropas, which translated refers to the origin of the word “White Plains” a description of fog that hangs over low lying swamp lands for extended periods of time.

When it comes to aviation, White Plains is to many air charter pilots what Mecca is to the devout pilgrimages in the middle east – we all have to go there, and regularly at that too. The analogy can be further extended to the fact that like religious pilgrimmages, it is something that gets in your blood from frequent VFR and IFR departures and arrivals as we whisk the elite from New York City to places like Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, New England and beyond. The White Plains airport has seen tremendous growth, transformation and modernization in the past twenty years with the increased boom of corporate aviation.

Perhaps no one knows the White Plains pilgrimmage quite as well as Bob Walsh and Nantucket Express, a veteran pilot of Nantucket (KACK) as well as White Plains (KHPN). Bob knows that a Friday afternoon, mid-summer in White Plains is some of the most congested traffic at a small controlled field as may be seen anywhere in the world. Thankfully, due to his acumen and experience, he is adept at getting people to and from their homes on Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and many other locations throughout the Northeast quickly and easily.

Nantucket Express is a proud sponsor of this airport, service Nantucket, New York, and all point in between and many more beyond. To learn more about Nantucket Express, visit their website and see their online schedule of availability. PO Box 127 Nantucket, MA 02554 tel. 508.367.4277