Big Sandy Airport
3U8 · Big Sandy, Montana · Chouteau County · map
Big Sandy Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile south of Big Sandy, Montana, 2,698 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 06/24, is 3,570 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3U8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 2,698 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Great Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1949
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 3,570 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 2,100 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 06: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 24: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 15 ft high 670 ft from the end
- Runway 13: power line 71 ft high 1,600 ft from the end
- Runway 31: road 15 ft high 650 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 - the common traffic frequency. |
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Aircraft registered in Big Sandy from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Big Sandy, Montana: 10 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Estbd prior to 1959.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pwr LN marked with orange balls.
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.