ICE detainee flights: Portsmouth International Airport at Pease

Note: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paused detainee flights at Pease in Portsmouth in September 2025. The flights were shifted back to Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts after being discontinued earlier in the summer. “ICE has resumed using Hanscom Field to support Operation Patriot 2.0,” an ICE Boston spokesperson confirmed. “Flying aliens out of Hanscom allows ICE to move detainees quickly from the intake center at Burlington to a detention center once they have been processed.”

Methodology

This page documents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee flights at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, beginning on July 15, 2025.

ICE does not disclose flight data, and the carriers have taken steps to conceal the flights. This data is based on information gathered through ADB-S Exchange—a crowd-sourced platform that collects and displays real-time and historical flight data from volunteer-hosted receivers—and cross-referenced with public reporting from mainstream media outlets, independent initiatives including ICE Flight Monitor, and observers’ social media posts, notably JJ in DC.

This list, which is updated daily, may not be exhaustive.