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Tallahassee Regional Airport (KTLH), now also styled Bobby Bowden-Tallahassee International Airport, lies some five miles southwest of downtown Tallahassee, Florida, and serves as the principal gateway for the state capital and the surrounding Big Bend region. It offers two long, ILS-equipped hard-surface runways and a full range of ATC services, making it a straightforward and well-equipped destination for simulator pilots flying into northern Florida.
Tallahassee Regional Airport, known by its ICAO code KTLH and IATA code TLH, is a public airport owned and operated by the City of Tallahassee. It serves as the primary airport for Florida's capital and the wider Big Bend region, handling commercial passenger service, cargo operations, general aviation and military traffic. The field also supports flight training affiliated with Tallahassee State College and Florida State University, giving it a steady mix of airline, training and general aviation movements that make it an interesting and busy stop for a visiting simulator pilot.
The airport sits about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of downtown Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida, and lies within Class C controlled airspace. Pilots planning a VFR arrival should expect to work with approach and tower control given the surrounding controlled airspace and the volume of commercial and training traffic based here.
Tallahassee Regional has two paired hard-surfaced runways. Runway 09/27 is 7,974 feet long, lit, with an instrument landing system serving Runway 27. Runway 18/36 is 7,003 feet long, also lit, with an instrument landing system serving Runway 36. Both runways are of sufficient length to handle everything from light training aircraft to airline jet traffic.
Tallahassee Regional is a fully controlled field. Air traffic control services include an approach/departure frequency of 128.7 MHz, a control tower and common traffic advisory frequency of 118.7 MHz, ground control on 121.9 MHz, and clearance delivery on 126.65 MHz. ATIS is broadcast on 119.45 MHz, and UNICOM is available on 122.95 MHz. A remote radio outlet, Gainesville Radio, operates on 122.2 MHz. The field is equipped with ILS approaches to both Runway 27 and Runway 36, supporting all-weather instrument arrivals.
The airport began life as Tallahassee Municipal Airport, opening with a ceremony on April 23, 1961, at which the American flag was presented to the City of Tallahassee by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I fighter ace and Chairman of the Board of Eastern Airlines, with U.S. Army aircraft from Fort Rucker, Alabama performing an aerial demonstration. It replaced the city's earlier airport, Dale Mabry Field, which closed the same year. Barely two months after opening, in June 1961, the airport was the scene of Freedom Rider protests when its restaurant, Savarin, refused to serve a racially mixed group of clergy and activists; the protesters were arrested and later served prison sentences after the Supreme Court rejected their appeal in Dresner v. City of Tallahassee. From opening until the early 1980s the primary runway was Runway 18/36, a 6,076-foot strip equipped with an ILS and a USAF-certified High TACAN approach used by aircraft from Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, while the original Runway 09/27 was only 4,000 feet long and handled general aviation. By the 1970s the airport had scheduled services from Eastern Airlines, Delta Air Lines, National Airlines and Southern Airways, mostly using Boeing 727s and 737s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. As jet aircraft grew larger, the original Runway 09/27 was converted to a taxiway and a new 8,003-foot runway with ILS was built to the south, alongside a new passenger terminal; ground was broken on November 2, 1987, prompting the renaming of the airport from Tallahassee Municipal Airport to Tallahassee Regional Airport. The new terminal opened on December 3, 1989 at a cost of $33 million, and was renamed the Ivan Munroe Terminal in 2000 in honour of Tallahassee aviation pioneer Ivan Munroe, the first person in the city to own an aircraft. On July 20, 2002, FedEx Express Flight 1478 crashed short of the runway while landing at the airport. The airport was renamed Tallahassee International Airport in 2015 following installation of a federal customs and border protection facility, and in April 2026 it was again renamed, to Bobby Bowden-Tallahassee International Airport, in honour of the long-time Florida State University football coach.
Tallahassee Regional continues to provide scheduled domestic passenger service with major carriers including American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, offering nonstop flights to hubs such as Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas/Fort Worth and Miami. The field supports flight training programmes affiliated with Tallahassee State College and Florida State University, alongside general aviation and cargo operations. Owing to its inland location and proximity to the Gulf Coast, the airport also serves as a staging area for hurricane relief and other disaster-response operations in the region.