Flying S Ranch Airport
ND43 · Minot, North Dakota · Ward County · map
Flying S Ranch Airport is a private airport, 5 miles southwest of Minot, North Dakota, 1,840 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 4,000 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)).
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 ND43
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,840 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas); the services card below
- On the chart
- Billings sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1948
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,000 × 300 ft | Grass, fair | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 35: twr 1,352 ft high 47,700 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Minot International (6 nm northeast), Mohall Municipal (34 nm north), Stanley Municipal (41 nm west).
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 North Dakota · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Caution: +150'UNLGTD/UNMKD tower 5300'FM aer 17 4400'R of extdd CL.
- Ultralight/skydiving activities daylight hours.
- Caution: animal holes possible.
- 150FT wind turbine 300FT west of runway 17/35.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Minot from the FAA register
237 aircraft are registered to owners in Minot, North Dakota: 126 piston singles, 94 drones, 7 piston twins, 5 turboprops, 2 helicopters. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in North Dakota.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Minot Aero Center 6 aircraft · Minot, 7 miles away Minot Aero Center is a family-operated flight school in Minot, North Dakota that provides flight instruction for private pilot, instrument, commercial, and other certificates, aircraft rentals, aircraft maintenance, pilot services, and FAA
- Heir Borne Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Minot, 7 miles away
Repair stations in Minot:
- Minot Aero Center Minot Aero Center is a family-operated aviation business in Minot, North Dakota that provides flight instruction, aircraft rentals, aircraft maintenance, pilot services, and FAA testing center services.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Minot 237 aircraft · 126 piston singles, 94 drones, 7 piston twins
- Skyskopes INC 90 aircraft in town
- Dakota Territory Air Museum 9 aircraft in town
- Minot Aero Center 6 aircraft in town
- Jf Aviation LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Minot Aero Center 6 aircraft · flight school
- Heir Borne Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Minot Aero Center · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in North Dakota 581 since 1982 · 59 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in North Dakota 89 landing places
- North Dakota 2,493 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/ND43.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 29, 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.