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Bates Airstrip Airport

2MT0 · Kalispell, Montana · Flathead County · map

Bates Airstrip Airport is a private airport, 7 miles northwest of Kalispell, Montana, 3,110 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 1,500 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 2MT0
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 3,110 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Great Falls sectional
In the FAA's files since: May 2006

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
02/20	1,500 × 50 ft	Grass

Runway 02: power line 50 ft high 50 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Kalispell from the FAA register

1,276 aircraft are registered to owners in Kalispell, Montana: 903 piston singles, 103 piston twins, 101 helicopters, 79 turboprops, 53 business jets. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

August Aero LLC 36 Artemis Aviation Group LLC 17 Warbirds-3 LLC 11 Air First LLC 9 Vertical CORP 8 Tall Timber Flying Service LLC 8 Polar Star CORP 8 Bellas Business LLC 8 Two Dot Aircraft LLC 7 Sierra Sky Aviation LLC 7

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Montana.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Glacier Park International GPI · 6 nm east Whitefish Airport 58S · 8 nm northeast Kalispell City Airport S27 · 9 nm southeast Ferndale Airfield 53U · 22 nm southeast Stillwater Airport 1MT4 · 1 nm east · private Kalispell Regional Hospital Heliport MT28 · 6 nm southeast · private Riverside Heliport MT10 · 7 nm southeast · private Weaver Airport MT54 · 8 nm southeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided VFR only.
Lnd runway 20, takeoff runway 02, runway 20 has 25 feet grade up hill.

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.