| Sylacauga Municipal Airport | |
| Nativename: | Merkel Field |
| Icao: | KSCD |
| Faa: | SCD |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner: | City of Sylacauga |
| Operator: | Sylacauga Airport Authority |
| City-Served: | Sylacauga, Alabama |
| Elevation-F: | 569 |
| Elevation-M: | 173 |
| Coordinates: | 33.1719°N -86.3056°W |
| Website: | http://sylacauga.com/Authority.asp |
| R1-Number: | 9/27 |
| R1-Length-F: | 5,390 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,643 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2010 |
| Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations |
| Stat1-Data: | 28,316 |
| Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft |
| Stat2-Data: | 63 |
| Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Sylacauga Municipal Airport, also known as Merkel Field, is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (3.5 mi, 5.6 km) west of the central business district of Sylacauga, a city in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned SCD by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned SCD to Sulaco, Honduras[4]).
Sylacauga Municipal Airport covers an area of 243acres at an elevation of 569 feet (173 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 9/27 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,390 by 100 feet (1,643 x 30 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 15, 2010, the airport had 28,316 aircraft operations, an average of 77 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 63 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 5% helicopter, 5% glider and 2% ultralight.