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Signature TEB West, East, & South – Teterboro, NJ

As we continue to create an enhanced experience for you at Signature Teterboro (TEB), we are transitioning to a mandatory reservation policy at our TEB locations. Beginning Saturday, February 1, this policy will take full effect in order to meet guest needs, streamline operations, and ultimately reduce gridlock and aircraft taxiing time so that we are able to create an exceptional experience for you at every turn. 

Reservations Required: We ask that you make a reservation prior to your arrival at any of our TEB locations. This can be done easily through our online reservation system or by calling our local guest experience team at +1 201-288-1880. If you need changes or to cancel existing reservations in the future, please inform us at your earliest convenience. 

No Reservation Fees: While reservations will be required, there will be no fees to make a reservation. However, there will be a fee associated with landing without a prior reservation. Failure to make a reservation six hours or more before your time of arrival or departure will result in a No Reservation fee. 

Need to Make a Reservation?

Visit any of the TEB Terminal Pages, contact our TEB team directly at +1 201-288-1880 or email [email protected]. Our guest experience team is ready to assist you with any questions or special requests.

Attached please find a copy of TEB Airport Operations Bulletin (AOB) # 2025-1 Runway 1-19 Stub Taxiway Re-designation, which provides information on an upcoming major change to the airport taxiway system.

TEB FBO Partners: please print the second page of this bulletin and post it in flight planning rooms, briefing rooms, and pilot lounges. 

TEB Airport Operations can be reached at (201) 288-1775 Ext. 3.

Please reference below the FAA Flyer regarding GA preferred routing to help mitigate
southbound departure gate congestion.

For any questions or concerns please contact:
Teterboro Air Traffic Control Tower at (201) 426-9457
Or
Teterboro Airport Operations at (201) 288-1775 Ext. 3

On October 20, 2024, Teterboro’s new ATCT became operational, and offers Controllers the space, technology and visibility to maximize safety and efficiency. Soon, the ADS-B based traffic display will also become operational, further enhancing Controller situational awareness. The old Tower is slated for demolition. For more information regarding the advantages afforded by the new Tower, please click here to read NBAA’s associated article.

On October 29, TUG President Dave Belastock had the opportunity to tour of the new facility with Acting Tower Manager Matt Peterson, and also met with PANYNJ NY/NJ Delay Reduction Program Manager Ralph Tamburro and KTEB Manager Airport Operations and Security Scott Marsh. In the short term, please be patient as Controllers adapt to their new space and capabilities. Transition aside, Teterboro’s new state-of-the-art Tower will clearly benefit airport users, operators and the surrounding communities for decades to come!

TUG strongly encourages operators to make reservations with FBOs in an effort to prevent gridlock, which has occurred several times in recent days. Some operators have failed to make reservations at all. Others who’ve been informed by FBOs of ramp constraints have represented that they’re “just a drop and go,” only to leave the aircraft and return the following day. The result has been gridlock on ramps and taxiways that have precipitated ground delay programs elsewhere in the NAS.

Please make every effort to share your arrival information in advance with the FBO of your choosing so as to enable better allocation of limited ramp space and avoid unnecessary delays for all of KTEB’s operators.

On Monday, August 19, flight crews departing KTEB Rwy 24 can expect to be cleared to fly the WENTZ 1 RNAV SID. Required ATC training will have been completed, though the RUUDY 6 will remain as a fallback for some time should unforeseen circumstances necessitate its use.

Two specific reminders for operators as you prepare to execute the WENTZ 1:

• The top altitude for WENTZ is 1500’ – be sure to level off, and do NOT continue your climb until authorized by ATC.
• There are NO left hand turnouts on this procedure – be sure you do not make a left hand turn as you will end up in EWR traffic flow.

Please review the new chart carefully, brief comprehensively regarding lateral/vertical mode usage and crew coordination, and enjoy this simplified procedure.

From our friends at NBAA Air Traffic Services …

“The Newark Area airspace sector will transition from NY TRACON to PHL TRACON during the overnight shift the evening of July 27 into the morning of July 28. This airspace includes Teterboro/TEB, Morristown/MMU, Caldwell/CDW, Linden/LDJ and Newark Liberty/EWR airports. All SIDs/STARs/IAPs will remain unchanged and the transition should be seamless as far as ATC communications. The area designation will transition from New York Approach to Newark Approach. During the initial phases of the transition, we expect to see ATC Traffic Management Initiatives to include the following:
 
– Ground Delay Programs at reduced arrival rates for EWR, TEB, MMU.
– Possible Airspace Flow Programs which would control the airports of TEB/MMU/CDW as one.
– Reroute requirements that may differ from the standard preferred routes. For example, air traffic into TEB/MMU/CDW from the south may see reroutes through Allentown/Wilkes Barre TRACONs arriving from the West.
 
The duration of the initial transition and the traffic management initiatives associated with the transition will likely be in place for the near term so please stay tuned as we will provide additional operational information as soon as it is available.”

Operators planning to fly to KTEB from the south are advised to fuel appropriately for possible extended distances, times and delays.

TUG worked collaboratively with the FAA to develop a KTEB Rwy 24 SID that offers greater clarity, improved procedural simplicity, and lower susceptibility to error than the current RUUDY 6 SID. This process culminated with the July 11 publication of the WENTZ 1 RNAV SID.

The WENTZ 1 offers a simplified vertical profile with a Top Altitude of 1500’ and no step climb.

TUG expresses our sincere gratitude to the FAA and those individuals directly involved in the development of this procedure.

Please find below a preliminary version of the chart, not to be used for navigation:

The FAA has issued InFO 24005 providing information regarding these procedures. Click here to read.

The ILS or LOC Rwy 6 has been replaced with the ILS Z or LOC Z RWY 6. Please note the new elements/requirements and differences from the old IAP, to include:

• PBN box specifies GPS required
• All fixes replaced with waypoints
• New waypoints/procedural requirements: MALCN (SBJ transition), LEESY (at or above 1700’), TEBLE (Missed Approach), UBUCK (Missed Approach)

The following charts (new and old) are for reference and not for navigation:

The FAA’s newly published Safety Alert for Pilots (SAFO) 23005 is directed at those who use controller-pilot datalink communications (CPDLC) to ensure that all parts of a clearance are appropriately loaded into the flight management system before departing. It also helps to ensure that the proper clearance is followed.

The document reminds operators that certain clearances require the flight crew to manually input standard instrument departures (SIDs) into the FMS each time a revised UM79 partial reroute message is received (cleared to XXX waypoint via other waypoints en route). In some instances, pilots have misinterpreted UM79to mean they were cleared to fly directly to the waypoint. A direct clearance would be a UM74 message.

According to the alert, 20 recorded aircraft deviations at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport (KTEB) in 2022 have drawn attention to potential CPDLC and UM79 issues. In these incidents, aircraft departed TEB and flew directly into the arrival corridor of Newark Airport (KEWR). Controllers had to “quickly identify and coordinate” with New York and Newark controllers to issue a turn to avoid traffic. “The FAA determined that the probable cause of these events was due to the SID clearance not being manually reloaded in the FMS after receiving a UM79,” the FAA said.

In September 2021, Honeywell reached out to TUG to discuss the possibility of developing a procedure that would provide lateral and vertical guidance using RF legs to aircraft cleared for the ILS Z 6 Circle Rwy 1. Thus began an extensive collaboration through all stages of development involving TUG’s subject matter expertise and coordination with Honeywell, FAA, PANYNJ, NBAA and training providers that’s culminated in Honeywell’s publication of the RNAV H Rwy 1 for its RNP-AR Customers. Aviation International News’ (AIN) Matt Thurber has written an excellent article describing this procedure: KTEB Hosts Honeywell’s First Guided Visual Approach.

We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to Honeywell’s Senior Manager, Flight Technical Services Jim Johnson for his leadership, and all of the aforementioned stakeholders, including those of Teterboro’s users who participated in the evaluation flights, for their assistance in making this procedure a reality.

TUG will continue to work with avionics OEMs, training providers, FAA, PANYNJ, NBAA, the user community and indeed all stakeholders to continue the process of developing additional procedures, including IAPs, that increase the safety of flight operations at Teterboro Airport.