Northwest Alabama Regional Airport (IATA: MSL, ICAO: KMSL, FAA LID: MSL) is a public-use airport in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. It located one nautical mile (2 km) east of the central business district of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The airport is owned by the counties of Colbert and Lauderdale. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 5,061 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 6,897 enplanements in 2009, and 8,680 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).
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