Bridger Municipal
6S1 · Bridger, Montana · Carbon County · map
Bridger Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Bridger/Carbon CO in Bridger, Montana, 3,720 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,400 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 6S1
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Bridger/Carbon CO
- Elevation
- 3,720 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Billings sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,400 × 42 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 16: threshold displaced 120 ft, tree 30 ft high 262 ft from the end
- Runway 34: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 475 ft, road 15 ft high 528 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Bridger from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Bridger, Montana: 12 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 · 3 since 1982, 0 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
- Established prior to 1959
- Deer and waterfowl on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 16/34, PAPI runway 34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Low-intensity runway lights non-standard. West side 57 feet from pavement edge; east side 47 feet from pavement edge. Each threshold has 4 lights total.
- Runway 16 +4 feet fence 140 feet from end of runway, +15 feet road 161 feet from end of runway, all xng runway centerline perpendicular. 9 feet sign 100 L centerline 142 feet from end of runway.
- Runway 34 +4FT fence 65 feet L and parl to runway; sign 66 feet L and 65 feet from end of runway; +60 feet poles in transient surf west side of runway 34 thld. Runway 34 3% uphill grade.
- Runway 16 threshold relocated 120 feet for night operations only not marked.
- Runway 34 dthr marked by nrs; 2880 feet available for night operates.
- Acph ratio 50:1 from displaced thld.
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.