Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport
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NAIP aerial image, June 2006
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Birmingham | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Birmingham Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Birmingham, Alabama | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 650 ft / 198 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°33′50″N 086°45′08″W / 33.56389°N 86.75222°WCoordinates: 33°33′50″N 086°45′08″W / 33.56389°N 86.75222°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | FlyBirmingham.com | ||||||||||||||
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| Aircraft Operations (2015) | 90,002 |
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| Based Aircraft (2017) | 220 |
| Passengers | 2,594,000 |
| Enplanements | 1,325,897 |
| Freight | 176,272,280 lbs |
Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport (IATA: BHM, ICAO: KBHM, FAA LID: BHM), formerly Birmingham Municipal Airport and later Birmingham International Airport, is a joint civil-military airport serving Birmingham, Alabama, United States and its metropolitan area including Tuscaloosa. It is located in Jefferson County, five miles northeast of downtown Birmingham, near the interchange of I-20 and I-59.
Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport averages 301 aircraft operations a day, including 136 flights to 43 airports in 40 cities. BHM served 2,695,399 passengers in 2015, and is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Alabama by passenger volume.
The airfield can handle all aircraft types. The main runway is 12,002 feet (3,658 m) long. The secondary runway is 7,100 feet (2,200 m) long. A Category II ILS allows operations in visibility as low as a quarter-mile.
The airport was renamed in July 2008 after Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth.
The Southern Museum of Flight is on Airport Authority property, on the east side of the north-south runway.
Commercial air service to Birmingham began in 1928 by St. Tammy and Gulf Coast Airways, at Roberts Field on the west side of Birmingham on a route from Atlanta, Georgia to New Orleans, Louisiana.Delta Air Service began service to Birmingham in late 1929 with six seat Travel Air airplanes along a route from Love Field in Dallas, Texas to Birmingham. When American Airways (now American Airlines) began their Atlanta, Georgia to Fort Worth, Texas route, Birmingham was not included because their Ford Tri-Motors could not land at Roberts Field. So Birmingham began construction of what is now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport.
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