Tracking noise provides Massport and the residential communities around Hanscom Field with an understanding of the noise environment around the airport. This is done with monitors that measure the actual noise at specific locations and through computer modeling.
Noise Monitoring System
Massport has six monitors around Hanscom Field. There is one in each of the four surrounding communities, off the four runway ends. The other two are on the airfield, near the ends of Runway 11-29, the east-west runway. Each monitor has a microphone and equipment that collects the readings and transfers the data to Massport offices. (View Chapter 7 page 28 of the 2017 ESPR.