Kalispell City Airport
S27 · Kalispell, Montana · Flathead County · map
Kalispell City Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Kalispell, 1 mile south of Kalispell, Montana, 2,932 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 3,600 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA S27
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Kalispell
- Elevation
- 2,932 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 8:00 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
- Great Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 3,600 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 13: threshold displaced 450 ft, road 15 ft high 280 ft from the end
- Runway 31: threshold displaced 155 ft, road 15 ft high 300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency |
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Aircraft registered in Kalispell from the FAA register
1,276 aircraft are registered to owners in Kalispell, Montana: 903 piston singles, 103 piston twins, 101 helicopters, 79 turboprops, 53 business jets. 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 Montana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 since 1982, 2 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency
- 48 feet tree 150 feet from end of runway 120 feet L of centerline.
- Unlighted.
- Lighted threshold relocated for night operations; 3445 feet of runway 13/31 lighted at night.
- Two 80 feet poles 1400 feet from runway end 150 feet R and 520 feet R of centerline; two 80 feet poles 1650 feet from runway end 15 feet R and 385 feet R of centerline; 15:1 approach slope.
- Ultralights, paja and bln act on and in the vicinity of airport.
- 400 feet unlighted tower 3 MI east.
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.