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KBHM Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport LIFR

  • Name
    Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport
  • ICAO / IATA / GPS
    KBHM / BHM / KBHM
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    2:44 am (CST)
  • Municipality
    Birmingham
  • Coordinates
    33° 33′ 46″ N 86° 45′ 12″ E
  • Elevation
    650 ft (198 m MSL)

About Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport

Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport (IATA: BHM, ICAO: KBHM, FAA LID: BHM), formerly Birmingham Municipal Airport and later Birmingham International Airport, is a civil-military airport serving Birmingham, Alabama. The airport also provides scheduled airline service for the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa metropolitan areas. It is located in Jefferson County, five miles northeast of Downtown Birmingham, near the interchange of Interstates 20 and 59.

BHM served 3,056,215 passengers in 2023, and is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Alabama by passenger volume. The airfield can handle all aircraft types. The main runway is 12,007 feet (3,660 m) long. The secondary runway is 7,099 feet (2,164 m) long. A Category II ILS allows operations in visibility as low as a quarter-mile. The airport was renamed in July 2008 after Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, founding president of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and a leader of the Birmingham campaign during the civil rights movement.

The airport carries the designation of an international airport and has a staffed U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility on site.

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