Bowbells Municipal
5B4 · Bowbells, North Dakota · Burke County · map
Bowbells Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Bowbells, 1 mile north of Bowbells, North Dakota, 1,955 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,900 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5B4
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Bowbells
- Elevation
- 1,955 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Billings sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1969
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,900 × 200 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 08: trees 48 ft high 490 ft from the end
- Runway 26: threshold displaced 460 ft, rr 29 ft high 100 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Bowbells from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Bowbells, North Dakota: 2 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 North Dakota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Runway ireg and soft when wet with water ponding possible.
- Displaced threshold marked only with daylight blk and wht cns.
- Runway 8/26 - marked with blk and wht cns.
- +25 feet rlrd 520 feet from dthr; 135 feet L/R CL; 20:1 approach slp.
- Taxiway soft when wet with 1 inch drainage swale.
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.