Battle Mountain Airport
BAM · KBAM · Battle Mountain, Nevada · Lander County · map
Battle Mountain Airport is a public-use airport owned by Lander County, 3 miles southeast of Battle Mountain, Nevada, 4,536 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 7,300 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BAM · ICAO KBAM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Lander County
- Elevation
- 4,536 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Salt Lake City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1944
Runways 4
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 7,300 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 7,299 × 100 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
| H1 | 60 × 60 ft | Concrete, good | Perimeter lights |
| H2 | 60 × 60 ft | Concrete, good | Perimeter lights |
- Runway 04: PAPI, four lights on the right
- Runway 22: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Bam and aWOS-3 | 119.45 | |
| Battle Mountain Center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.25 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 775-635-8419.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Battle Mountain from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Battle Mountain, Nevada: 8 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 Nevada.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 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
- (E81) edge reflectors on taxiways and ramp.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 04 and 22; PAPI runway 04 and 22; medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 and 13/31; peri lights H1 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway nrs faded.
- Threshold markings faded.
- Runway nrs faded.
- Threshold markings faded.
- Black outline is partially vsb, west interior gone.
- Black outline partially vsb. West interior gone.
- Pci 54 L and T alligator patching, bone cracking, weeds growing through cracks.
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.