Redstone Army Airfield

34°40′43″N 086°41′05″W﻿ / ﻿34.67861°N 86.68472°W﻿ / 34.67861; -86.68472

Airport in near Huntsville, Alabama

Redstone Army Airfield (AAF)

* IATA: HUA
* ICAO: KHUA
* FAA LID: HUA

Summary
Airport type| Military
Operator| United States Army
Serves| Redstone Arsenal
Location| Madison County, near Huntsville, Alabama
Elevation AMSL| 685 ft / 209 m
Runways
| Direction | Length  | Surface

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ft  | m
17/35  | 7,297  | 2,224  | Asphalt

Sources: FAA,[1] official site[2]

Redstone Army Airfield or Redstone AAF (IATA: HUA, ICAO: KHUA, FAA LID: HUA) is a military airport located at Redstone Arsenal, six miles (10 km) southwest of the city of Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama, United States. The airfield was originally constructed for munitions testing for the U.S. Army and the U.S. Army Air Forces through the 6th AAF Base Unit (Proving Ground Detachment). It is currently used to support the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, NASA, and other U.S. government aviation and space activities.

## History

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In 1943, the airstrip on Huntsville Arsenal was established to assist with the testing of incendiary bomb clusters. The testing was done during the height of World War II and, after the allied victory, was promptly stopped. The airfield was largely vacated, though it continued to serve as a military landing strip.[3]

On April 12, 1956, the city of Huntsville approached the commander of the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency to talk about a new federal airway. It was decided that a control tower would be established at Redstone AAF and it would serve as the control tower for military and commercial flights until a new Huntsville Airport was built. After the establishment of the control tower, the control tower of Memphis, Tennessee agreed to handle air traffic for Huntsville through the Redstone Control Tower. The airstrip operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week from July 1956 until November 1969, when it was changed to its current schedule of 13 hours a day, five days a week.[3]

US Army aircraft at Redstone Army Airfield in the 1950s

## See also

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* Redstone Arsenal

## References

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1. ^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for HUA PDF, retrieved 2007-03-15
2. ^ Redstone Arsenal Archived 2006-06-02 at the Wayback Machine (official site)
3. ^ a b "Redstone Army Airfield Chronology". Redstone Arsenal. Archived from the original on 2010-11-05. Retrieved 2008-06-28.

## External links

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* Redstone Arsenal Flying Activity
* FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective January 23, 2025
* FAA Terminal Procedures for HUA, effective January 23, 2025
* Resources for this U.S. military airport:
* FAA airport information for HUA
* AirNav airport information for KHUA
* ASN accident history for HUA
* NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
* SkyVector aeronautical chart for KHUA

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