Bemidji Regional
BJI · KBJI · Bemidji, Minnesota · Beltrami County · map
Bemidji Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Bemidji / Beltrami CO, 3 miles northwest of Bemidji, Minnesota, 1,391 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 7,004 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BJI · ICAO KBJI
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Bemidji / Beltrami CO
- Elevation
- 1,391 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Tuesday to Friday, 6:00 am to 9:00 pm; weekends, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; Monday, 7:00 am to 9:00 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
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1946
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 7,004 × 150 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 07/25 | 5,700 × 150 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), trees 68 ft high 2,278 ft from the end
- Runway 31: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 07: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 25: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 35 ft high 1,294 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Bji and aWOS-3 | 119.275 | |
| Bemidji and rco | 122.3 | Bemidji |
| Bemidji and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.75 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 218-755-2575.
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 Bemidji from the FAA register
110 aircraft are registered to owners in Bemidji, Minnesota: 65 piston singles, 23 turboprops, 22 piston twins. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 9 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
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- High-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 preset on low intst; to incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runway 07/25; medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25; approach lights (MALSR) runway 13/31; high-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 07, runway 25, runway 13 and runway 31 operates continuously.
- Snow removal crews montr the common traffic frequency durg all air carrier operations for airfield condition information.
- Rescue and firefighting (ARFF) crews montr the common traffic frequency durg all air carrier operations.
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.