Soldier Bar Usfs Airport
85U · Soldier Bar, Idaho · Valley County · map
Soldier Bar Usfs Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southwest of Soldier Bar, Idaho, 4,190 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 1,650 feet of dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 85U
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 4,190 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Great Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 1,650 × 15 ft | Dirt, fair |
- Runway 07: trees 90 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 25: hill 200 ft high 1,100 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Soldier Bar from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Soldier Bar, ID as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- Steep canyon walls in all drctns.
- Sharp dog leg to the northwest, on west 1/3 of runway. Land runway 25; takeoff runway 07.
- Airport on bench 500 feet above big creek on south side.
- Cabin creek airport approx 7 miles west up big creek canyon.
- West 1/3 of runway has 4 degrees slope down to the north.
- GO-AROUNDS not recommended.
- Runway 7/25 has two big humps around the MID-FLD and to the west of it.
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.