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(Birmingham Airport Motel was a different operation located adjacent to the main terminal and since demolished)
 
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[[Image:Airport Inn.JPG|right|450px|thumb|America's Best Inn, February 2011]]
[[Image:Airport Inn.JPG|right|450px|thumb|America's Best Inn, February 2011]]
'''America's Best Inn''' (originally the '''Birmingham Airport Motel''') is a 143 room motel located at 5101 [[Messer Airport Highway]] near the [[Birmingham International Airport]].
'''America's Best Inn''' (previously the '''Days Inn Birmingham''') is a 143 room motel located at 5101 [[Messer Airport Highway]] near the [[Birmingham International Airport]].


The motel was constructed in [[1961]]. A ground testing facility used by the [[Alabama Aircraft Industrie|Hayes International Corporation]] was relocated for the access road to the new terminal and motel project by the City of [[Birmingham]]. The motel restaurant was known as '''The Aeronaut''', and its bar was the '''Flight Lounge'''.
The hotel featured the [[Aeronaut Restaurant]].
[[Image:Airport Motel.jpg|right|thumb|325px|Airport Motel]]
[[File:Airport Motel postcard.jpg|right|thumb|325px|Airport Motel seen from the control tower]]
The motel, then known as '''Airport Inn Motel''', was the site of a triple homicide during a robbery over the Thanksgiving holiday in [[List of Birmingham homicides in 2005|2005]]. Brandon Deon Mitchell was convicted of the murder of Kim Olney, 28 (the desk clerk), John Aylesworth, 42 (a truck driver), and Dorothy Smith, 58, who was visiting from Queens, New York.
The motel, then known as '''Airport Inn Motel''', was the site of a triple homicide during a robbery over the Thanksgiving holiday in [[List of Birmingham homicides in 2005|2005]]. Brandon Deon Mitchell was convicted of the murder of Kim Olney, 28 (the desk clerk), John Aylesworth, 42 (a truck driver), and Dorothy Smith, 58, who was visiting from Queens, New York.


==References==
==References==
* "[http://www.birminghamrewound.com/features/Airport%20Motel%20(10-61).jpg New road routed over noted site]" (October 1961) {{BN}} - via [[Birmingham Rewound]]
* Velasco, Eric (November 18, 2006) "Mitchell's jury urges life term in slayings." {{BN}}
* Velasco, Eric (November 18, 2006) "Mitchell's jury urges life term in slayings." {{BN}}


[[Category:Motels]]
[[Category:Motels]]
[[Category:Messer Airport Highway]]
[[Category:Messer Airport Highway]]
[[Category:1961 buildings]]
[[Category:1961 establishments]]
[[Category:Birmingham airport]]

Latest revision as of 16:40, 20 April 2023

America's Best Inn, February 2011

America's Best Inn (previously the Days Inn Birmingham) is a 143 room motel located at 5101 Messer Airport Highway near the Birmingham International Airport.

The motel, then known as Airport Inn Motel, was the site of a triple homicide during a robbery over the Thanksgiving holiday in 2005. Brandon Deon Mitchell was convicted of the murder of Kim Olney, 28 (the desk clerk), John Aylesworth, 42 (a truck driver), and Dorothy Smith, 58, who was visiting from Queens, New York.

References

  • Velasco, Eric (November 18, 2006) "Mitchell's jury urges life term in slayings." The Birmingham News
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