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Talladega Municipal Airport (KASN) is a city-owned general aviation field in Lincoln, Alabama, sited immediately alongside the famous Talladega Superspeedway around eight nautical miles northeast of Talladega's business district. It offers a single long hard-surfaced runway with an ILS approach, making it a straightforward and well-equipped stop for visiting VFR and IFR pilots in northeast Alabama.
Talladega Municipal Airport, also known locally as Boswell Field, is a public-use, city-owned airfield serving Talladega, Alabama, though it actually lies within the city of Lincoln, immediately adjacent to the Talladega Superspeedway. It is classed by the FAA as a general aviation facility within the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, and its proximity to the speedway gives it a distinctive character, with periodic surges of transient traffic tied to racing events at the circuit. For a simulator pilot, its long single runway, ILS approach and quiet general-aviation routine make it a manageable but interesting destination in the Birmingham/Anniston area.
The airport sits about eight nautical miles northeast of Talladega's central business district, in Talladega County, Alabama, and directly adjoining the Talladega Superspeedway in the city of Lincoln. Traffic in the area is worked by Birmingham Approach/Departure, whose frequency is published for the field, indicating the airport lies within or adjacent to Birmingham's approach control airspace.
The airfield has one physical runway, 04/22, a hard-surfaced strip 6,007 feet long, lit for night operations. An ILS approach serves runway 04.
Pilots can expect to work Birmingham Approach/Departure on 125.45 MHz for arrivals and departures. Field weather is broadcast on an AWOS-3 on 118.425 MHz. Anniston Radio is listed on 108.8 MHz. The common traffic advisory frequency and unicom is 122.8 MHz.
The airport is unmistakable from the air owing to its position directly beside the Talladega Superspeedway, a large oval racetrack that serves as an excellent visual landmark when inbound from any direction. The field lies within the city of Lincoln, roughly eight nautical miles northeast of Talladega itself, with Speedway Boulevard (Alabama Highway 114/County Road 399) running past the airport to the racetrack.
Talladega Municipal Airport has long been recognised by the Federal Aviation Administration as a general aviation facility, and was included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011 to 2015 under that category. Its location beside the Talladega Superspeedway links its modern identity closely with the motor racing venue it adjoins, though it remains a city-owned public airport in its own right.
The airport is owned by the City of Talladega and, according to the city's own airport department, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It sits on an 863-acre tract of land next to the Talladega Superspeedway and is reached from the ground via Speedway Boulevard. FAA data cited by Wikipedia records 51 aircraft based at the field, comprising 42 single-engine and 5 multi-engine aeroplanes, one jet, two helicopters and one ultralight, with around 40,880 aircraft operations a year, the great majority general aviation traffic alongside a small proportion of military and air-taxi movements.
