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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
612 ft / 187 m

5/23
  
7,000

Code
  
ANB

Phone
  
+1 256-831-4410

Serves
  
Anniston, Alabama

Website
  
AnnistonAL.gov/...

7,000
  
2,134

Elevation
  
187 m

Owner
  
City of Anniston

Anniston Regional Airport

Address
  
2504 Anniston Airport Blvd, Oxford, AL 36203, USA

Similar
  
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Anniston Regional Airport (IATA: ANB, ICAO: KANB, FAA LID: ANB), formerly known as Anniston Metropolitan Airport, is a city-owned public-use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) southwest of the central business district of Anniston, a city in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport.

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Facilities and aircraft

Anniston Regional Airport covers an area of 596 acres (241 ha) at an elevation of 612 feet (187 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 5/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 7,000 by 150 feet (2,134 x 46 m).

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2012, the airport had 33,644 aircraft operations, an average of 92 per day: 71% general aviation, 15% military, 14% air taxi, and <1% scheduled commercial. At that time there were 32 aircraft based at this airport: 50% single-engine, 31% multi-engine, 6% jet, 6% glider, and 6% ultralight.

Incidents

Anniston Metropolitan Airport was the intended destination of GP Express Flight 861 which crashed about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) northeast of the airport on June 8, 1992.

References

Anniston Regional Airport Wikipedia