The county of Talladega in Alabama, USA gets its name from the Creek Indian name of Talatigi, meaning 'border town'. The Talladega Municipal Airport serves as the most important gateway to the city.
The Talladega Municipal Airport in the State of Alabama lies at a distance of 13 kilometers to the northeast of the central business district of Talladega. The airport is meant for general aviation and is publicly owned by the City of Talladega.
Talladega Municipal Airport is a civil airport that has been coded as KASN by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and as ASN by International Air Transport Association (IATA). Out of the 48 aircrafts based on-field at the Municipal Airport at Talladega, 42 aircrafts have single engines and 1 has multiple engines. Besides, the airport also has 3 helicopters, a Jet, and an ultra-light airplane.
Spreading over a massive area of 416 hectares, the Talladega Municipal Airport has a 6000 feet long paved runway. Though this International Airport in Anchorage does not have customs service, it has an officially published instrument approach (known as Instrument Flight Rules or IFR) procedure that implies that flights can safely take-off from or land at Talladega Municipal Airport even during bad weather or inadequate light.
By the end of the year 2004, the Talladega Airport was accessed by 41,000 flights with an average of 112 per day, of which, 91 percent were general aviation vehicles, 7 percent were for the army, and the remaining 2 percent consisted of air taxis. The situation of a number of hotels near the airport of Talladega was also of immense help to the tourists.
The Talladega County came into existence on 18th December, 1832, from land granted by the Creek Indians near the center of the State of Alabama. The seat of the county was established a couple of years later.
www.flightshotelstours.com provides detailed, online information on Talladega Municipal Airport, as well as on Flights to Talladega and Flights to Alabama.
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