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A Trio of Huntsville Airports for Your Visit to ‘Rocket City’

These airports attract pilots and rocket scientists alike.

An aerial view of downtown Huntsville, Alabama, overlooking Big Spring Park
Huntsville, Alabama, offers several convenient airports for your visit to 'Rocket City.' [Credit: Adobe Stock]
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Key Takeaways:

  • The Huntsville area offers pilots a choice of three distinct airports: a busy international airport (KHSV), a business-focused executive airport (KMDQ), and a unique turf strip (3M5).
  • Huntsville International (KHSV) is a large, towered airport with long parallel runways, offering full fuel services and instrument approaches, but with a restriction on "line up and wait" operations.
  • Huntsville Executive (KMDQ) is a nontowered airport popular with business aviation, featuring a 6,500-foot runway, various instrument approaches (with a caution for trees on one), and full fuel services.
  • Moontown Airport (3M5) is known for one of the finest turf runways in the U.S. (2,180 feet), requires short/soft-field skills due to its nature and surrounding trees, and offers 100LL fuel but no instrument approaches.
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If you can fly yourself to the Huntsville area, you have at least a trio of choices, offering everything from a busy international airport (KHSV) to a business-aviation-focused field (KMDQ) to one of the finest turf strips in the lower 48 states (3M5).

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Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.

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