Georgia, and Parkwood‐Montgomery. CSX has major rail yards in
Montgomery, Mobile, and Birmingham.
Source: Montgomery Study Area 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan
Air
The Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM), also known as Dannelly Field, is
located five nautical miles (NM) south of Maxwell AFB and provides air
carrier, air taxi, and general aviation services for the region. The MGM
service area comprises 20 counties in south central Alabama, which includes
a population greater than 900,000. Of the total service population, it is
estimated that 460,000 people make up the airport’s primary service area.
MGM has two runways. The main runway (Runway 10 / 28) is 9,020 feet
long, and the secondary runway (Runway 3 / 21) is 4,011 feet long. The
need to extend Runway 3 / 21 to the southwest by 3,989 feet in order to
achieve a total length of 8,000 feet was identified in the MGM Master Plan
in order to accommodate general and occasional commercial operations.
MGM is the major airport serving Montgomery. It completed a $40 million
renovation and upgrade in 2006 that expanded the terminal and added new
gates, a new customer service center, flight information displays, new
restrooms and elevators, and new jet bridges to increase the airport’s ability
to compete with the larger international airports. The airport is governed by
the Montgomery Airport Authority, and managed by an Executive Director
and staff.
Airport facilities include two runways, a terminal building, a parking area, a
fixed base operator, ten corporate hangars, an aircraft rescue and
firefighting facility, a rental car service facility, an airport authority
maintenance facility, fueling areas, and an air traffic control tower. Delta
Airlines is the main commercial passenger operator, along with American
Eagle. Service is offered to Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas‐Fort Worth, and
Memphis.
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The MGM Master Plan indicated that enplanements at the airport have
decreased at an average annual rate of two percent from 2000 to 2010, with
193,780 enplanements reported for 2010. Future projections estimate an
average annual growth in passenger enplanements of 1.2 percent from 2010
to 2020 and 1.3 percent from 2010 to 2030. The most recent airport activity
numbers provided in the MGM Master Plan were from 2010, and indicated
that there were 79 based aircraft, which completed 69,142 operations
during the year. This number did not include the additional 57 military
aircraft that are also based at MGM, which belong to the Alabama Air
National Guard’s 187th Fighter Wing (FW). The Air National Guard’s
187th FW operates a squadron of F‐16C aircraft at MGM.
The City of Prattville has a public airport, known as Grouby Field, which is
located three NM southwest of the city. The airport has a single
(Runway 9 / 27) which is 5,400 feet in length and 100 feet in width. The
airport covers 82 acres, and averaged 60 aircraft operations per day in 2014.
The City of Wetumpka, in Elmore County, has a public airport known as
Wetumpka Municipal Airport which is located six nautical miles (NM)
southwest of the city. The airport has two runways: Runway 9 / 27 is 3,011
feet long and 80 feet wide, and Runway 18 / 36 is 2,600 feet long and
130 feet wide. The airport covers 312 acres, and averaged 108 aircraft
operations per day in 2014.
Source: Montgomery Study Area 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan;
http://www.airnav.com/airport/1A9
Background Report
June 2017