Anniston was opened on 19 October 1942 as a flying school as part of Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC).

[3] Anniston Insurance executive Bill Ward assisted NASCAR and International Speedway Corporation founder William H.G.

(Bill) France to acquire the land to the west of the hangar, which contained much of the old runways; this was used to develop what would become Alabama International Motor Speedway, now known as Talladega Superspeedway, which opened in 1969.

[1] The area has numerous taxiways and parts of former runways in various states of deterioration that are being used as access roads, one of which connects to the adjacent Talladega Municipal Airport.

While Talladega Municipal Airport sits next to the former base, it does not utilize any of the runways or taxiways of the former military airfield, and there is no shared history between the two facilities.