Valley Airport (Anniston)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Racing paused for takeoffs and landings
- Raced
- 1965
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Probably Anniston Regional Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Airport runway near Anniston, likely today's Anniston Regional Airport, five miles southwest of town
- Elevation
- 594 ft (181 m)
- Coordinates
- 33.58840, -85.85888
With FAA approval, drag races ran every Sunday afternoon on a runway at an airport near Anniston, most likely the one now called Anniston Metropolitan or Anniston Regional Airport, five miles southwest of town. Racing stopped whenever a plane needed to take off or land.
Background
If the races ran at the field now called Anniston Regional Airport (once Anniston Metropolitan), that airport is still open. The city of Anniston owns it, and it handles general aviation traffic southwest of downtown.
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