Bismarck Municipal Airport

ICAO KBIS46.7727°N 100.7469°W1,661 ft / 506 mMedium airport

Bismarck Municipal Airport (IATA: BIS, ICAO: KBIS) is a medium airport in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States. It opened in Dec 1937. It has 2 runways; the longest is 8,794 ft (2,680 m). In 2025 it handled 620 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1937–1937

DEC 1937

OpenedBismarck Municipal Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

13/31138° / 318° · LIT

LENGTH8,794 ft2,680 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

03/21039° / 219° · LIT

LENGTH6,600 ft2,012 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

490K

528K

552K

550K

570K

624K

305K

430K

485K

517K

593K

620K

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Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

Year-round4

MSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · Delta Air Lines620 km385 mi DENDenver International AirportUnited States · United Express831 km516 mi LASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · Allegiant Air1,685 km1,047 mi AZAMesa Gateway AirportUnited States · Allegiant Air1,758 km1,092 mi

Cargo1

FARHector International AirportUnited States · Alpine Air Express, FedEx Express299 km186 mi

Most destinationsAllegiant Air 2Delta Air Lines 1United Express 1Alpine Air Express 1FedEx Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BIS. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Bismarck Municipal Airport” (revision of 7 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers620K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,023of 3,974 · #249 North America · #173 US Longest runway8,794 ft2,680 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,960of 29,823 · #434 North America · #320 US Elevation1,661 ft506 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#10,802of 43,341 · #4,728 North America · #3,570 US AgeOpened 19372026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=703of 15,079 · =141 North America · =123 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

8 channels

A/DAPP/DEP126.300

ATISATIS119.350

CTAFCTAF118.300

GNDGND121.900

OPSARNG OPS49.800

RDOGRAND FORKS RDO122.200

TWRTWR118.300

UNICUNICOM122.950