<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Huntsville International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The original airport, Huntsville flying field / Mayfair airport, was south of the city. It had sod runways, no lighting and opened in the early 1930s. By 1934 the airport had four dirt/sod runways, southwest of today's intersection of Whitesburg drive and bob Wallace avenue.</p>
<p class="blog-para">A second airport south of downtown opened in 1941 with two paved runways, runway 18/36 being 4,000' long. The terminal building was a wooden shack at the northeast end of runway 5/23; the national weather service opened at the municipal airport in 1958. The second airport was near today's intersection of memorial parkway and airport road; traces of runways and terminal facilities can be seen from the air.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Hess&rsquo;s first scheduled jets were united 727s in late 1966. The current airport opened in 1967, west of the city along highway 20. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held 15 september 1968 with dr. Werner von Braun and senator john Sparkman in attendance.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Facilities Huntsville International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport covers 6,000 acres (2,428 ha) at an elevation of 629 feet (192 m). It has two asphalt runways: 18r/36l is 12,600 by 150 feet (3,840 x 46 m) and 18l/36r is 10,001 by 150 feet (3,048 x 46 m).</p>
<p class="blog-para">In the year ending December 31, 2019, the airport had 70,816 aircraft operations, average 194 per day: 37% military, 15% air taxi, 26% general aviation, and 21% airline. 86 aircraft were then based at the airport: 64 single-engine, 15 multi-engines, 6 jet and 1 ultralight.</p>
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