Libby Airport
S59 · Libby, Montana · Lincoln County · map
Libby Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City & County, 7 miles south of Libby, Montana, 2,605 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 5,003 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 16 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 5,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA S59
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City & County
- Elevation
- 2,605 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Great Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 5,003 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 15: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 38 ft high 215 ft from the end
- Runway 33: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 23 ft high 392 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| S59 and aWOS-A | 118.575 | |
| Lakeside and center (remote transmitter) Low | 123.95 |
Automated weather (AWOS-A), by phone 406-293-4631.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Libby from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Libby, Montana: 18 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 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 · 6 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 15 and 33; PAPI runway 15 and 33; medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 - the common traffic frequency.
- 3-6 feet berm 180 feet from threshold 71 feet R of centerline.
- Trees in pri surface create approach slp less than 1:1.
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.