The city's north end includes Real Canadian Superstore and Canadian Tire locations and other major grocery chains such as Sobeys, Canada Safeway and Calgary Co-op are also located in the city.
Airdrieonians F.C. (known from 2002 to 2013 as Airdrie United F.C.), a new club formed in place of the original Airdrieonians
Accountant and Airdrieonians fan Jim Ballantyne attempted, with the help of others, to gain entry with a club called "Airdrie United" who were essentially to be a reincarnation of Airdrieonians.
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Airdrie are currently managed by Gary Bollan, and club chairman Jim Ballantyne also served as president of The Scottish Football League and sits on the board of The Scottish Football Association.
Russell began the 2007–08 season with Airdrie, where a December 2007 Player of the Month award and his goalscoring form – by February 2008 he had already scored more than any previous season – attracted interest from Scottish Premier League sides Kilmarnock and Dundee United.
He signed for Limerick F.C. in 1990 and returned to Scotland later that season with Airdrie, before becoming Player/Manager of Maltese league club Luxol St. Andrews.
The Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link is a project created to enable Glasgow and Edinburgh to be linked via a fourth route by reopening the railway between the towns of Airdrie and Bathgate.
After the liquidation of Airdrieonians, a consortium led by Jim Ballantyne put forward a bid to fill the vacancy in the SFL and build a new club in Airdrie from scratch.
In 2010 Muir signed for Airdrie United in the Scottish First Division and at the end of the season was approached and offered an exceptional deal to play in Central America (Guatemala) with US coach Jeffrey Korytoski at Antigua GFC.
Rocky View is currently represented in the Alberta Legislature by MLA Rob Anderson in the riding of Airdrie, Bruce McAllister in Chestermere-Rocky View and Bruce Rowe in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills.
A number of parishes pre-date St Mary's (St Mary's, Greenock, and St Mirin, Paisley; both 1808, St Patrick, Dumbarton, 1830, St Margaret, Airdrie, 1836; St. John, Barrhead, St Mary, Duntocher, and St Fillan, Houston; all 1841), but of all of these only Saint Margaret's, Airdrie, still has the original church (opened 1836).
In November 1994 he joined Celtic in a £350,000 transfer and just over six months later gained his first winners medal as the Glasgow side defeated Airdrie to win the 1994–95 Scottish Cup.
Willie McLaren (born 1984), Scottish footballer currently playing for Airdrie United