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Huntsville International Airport

Huntsville International Airport
HSVKHSV

Huntsville International Airport

Huntsville, United States · North America
North America America/Chicago
18direct destinations
7airlines
2runways
3,840 mLongest runway
533Aircraft documented
1967opened

Huntsville International Airport (IATA: HSV, ICAO: KHSV, FAA LID: HSV) (Carl T. Jones) is a public airport and spaceport ten miles southwest of downtown Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama, United States. The FAA has designated the Huntsville International Airport as a Re-entry site for the Dream Chaser, a spaceplane operated by Sierra Space to make reentries from Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The airport is part of the Port of Huntsville (along with the International Intermodal Center and Jetplex Industrial Park), and serves the Huntsville-Decatur area. Opened in October 1967 as the Huntsville Jetport, it was the third airport for Huntsville. The airport has 12 gates with restrooms, shops, restaurants, phones and murals depicting aviation and space exploration scenes. The airport also has a 3-star hotel on the premises. The Four Points by Sheraton is located above the ticketing area and lobby, (adjacent to the terminal is a parking garage and to opposite sides are the control tower and a golf course). The airport's west runway, at 12,600 ft (3,800 m), is the second longest commercial runway in the southeastern United States, being 416 ft (127 m) shorter than the longest runway at Miami International Airport. Huntsville is frequently used as a diversion airport from larger hubs in the Southeast, such as Atlanta, due to its long runways and sophisticated snow removal and de-icing equipment.

Location

Mapa

34.636°N, 86.774°O · 192 m s. n. m. (629 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States
CityHuntsville
IATA codeHSV
ICAO codeKHSV
Coordinates34.636°N, 86.774°O
Elevation192 m s. n. m. (629 ft)
Time zoneAmerica/Chicago
Runways2
Longest runway3,840 m
Opened1967
Direct destinations18
Official website

Runways · 2

18R/36L
Length3,840 m12,598 ft
Width46 m151 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓
18L/36R
Length3,048 m10,000 ft
Width46 m151 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 9 Official publication

Tower

127.600TWR · CTAF

Ground

121.900

Clearance delivery

120.350

ATIS (automatic information)

121.250ATIS · MET

Approach

118.050APP · DEP · SECT 185-004125.600APP · DEP · SECT 005-184118.750120.800ARTCC · APP CLSD

UNICOM

122.950
Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.

History

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.

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.

Huntsville's first scheduled jets were United 727s in 1966. Carl T. Jones Field opened in 1967, west of the city along Highway 20 and County Line Road. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held 15 September 1968 with Dr. Wernher von Braun and Senator John Sparkman in attendance.

On May 21, 2021, Breeze Airways announced that Huntsville International Airport would be one of the airline’s original 16 launch destinations, with nonstop service beginning later that year using the Airbus A220 and Embraer E190/E195 aircraft. The announcement marked the arrival of a low-cost carrier at the airport, following Frontier's departure, and positioned Huntsville as an early partner in Breeze’s national network launch.

What flies here

From our own logbook: 533 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.

533Aircraft documented
55,249Movements recorded
2006–2025Years on record

Types seen here

Bombardier CRJ illustrationBombardier CRJ215Boeing 717 illustrationBoeing 71779Embraer ERJ 135 / 145 illustrationEmbraer ERJ 135 / 14564Embraer E170 / E175 illustrationEmbraer E170 / E17563Boeing 737 illustrationBoeing 73711McDonnell Douglas MD-80 illustrationMcDonnell Douglas MD-802Airbus A321 illustrationAirbus A3211Airbus A320 illustrationAirbus A3201Boeing 737 MAX illustrationBoeing 737 MAX1Boeing 757 illustrationBoeing 7571

Airlines with documented aircraft

ExpressJet 154 PSA Airlines 111 Delta Air Lines 96 Envoy Air 57 Mesa Airlines 45 SkyWest Airlines 35 Endeavor Air 34 ExpressJet Airlines 15 Frontier Airlines 1 American Airlines 1

Busiest routes from here

ATLAtlanta3,163 flightsCLTCharlotte774 flightsDCAWashington450 flightsDFWDallas-Fort Worth397 flightsIAHHouston349 flightsDENDenver86 flightsIADDulles17 flightsORDChicago12 flights

A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.

Airlines operating here · 7

Other airlines with direct routes

American Eagle Allegiant Air Breeze Airways United Express Delta Connection American Airlines Delta Air Lines

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Farm S… · Public domain · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Huntsville International Airport (HSV). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HSV

MLA

“Huntsville International Airport (HSV).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HSV. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Huntsville International Airport (HSV).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HSV.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Huntsville International Airport (HSV). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HSV (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_hsv,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Huntsville International Airport (HSV)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-16},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HSV},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HSV}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

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