Klies Air Strip
MT43 · Basin, Montana · Jefferson County · map
Klies Air Strip is a private airport, 6 miles northwest of Basin, Montana, 6,300 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 2,100 feet of grass and gravel. It has fuel (100 octane avgas).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MT43
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 6,300 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- 100 octane avgas; the services card below
- On the chart
- Great Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1989
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 2,100 × 30 ft | Grass and gravel |
- Runway 29: trees 100 ft high 500 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Deer Lodge-City-County (18 nm west), Helena Regional (22 nm northeast), Bert Mooney Airport (24 nm south), Ruby Valley Field (49 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Montana · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Personal use.
- Moose, deer and elk fqt the Strip.
- Landings to the north and takeoffs to the south only due to terrain 1500' high 1.2 miles from the runway.
- 500' ovrnat south end of Strip running into 100' trees.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Basin from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Basin, MT as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Montana 1,119 since 1982 · 164 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Montana 127 landing places
- Montana 6,044 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MT43.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.