Red Lodge Airport
RED · KRED · Red Lodge, Montana · Carbon County · map
Red Lodge Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Red Lodge- Carbon CO, 1 mile northwest of Red Lodge, Montana, 5,762 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 4,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA RED · ICAO KRED
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Red Lodge- Carbon CO
- Elevation
- 5,762 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Great Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: VASI, two boxes on the left, tree 14 ft high 408 ft from the end
- Runway 34: road 10 ft high 288 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Red Lodge from the FAA register
41 aircraft are registered to owners in Red Lodge, Montana: 39 piston singles, 1 helicopter, 1 drone. 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 Montana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 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
- Activate VASI 16; medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Noise abatement procedure in effect; pilots reqstd to; runway 16 arrival fly dnwnd at traffic pattern altitude ovr bluff east of downtown and when safe and practical fly high angle final app slp; runway 34 departure, mnvr on upwind to west of residential area north of airport as soon as safe and practical; runway 34 arrival, fly dnwnd west of residential area west. Crosswind grass strips; limit operations to/from xwind grass strips and fly standard traffic patterns at pattern altitude to minimize impacts upon city downtown and residential areas immediately east of airport.
- +4 feet fence and +10 feet road 100-110 feet right an X centerline 288 feet from threshold. -400 feet trrn dropoff 150 feet R.
- Faded; ptns misg.
- Faded.
- Edge cracking and eroding; loose surface gravel.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Automated UNICOM: 2 clicks on 122.725.
- Grass strip operations; fly standard traffic pattern altitude; lmt 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.