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Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal

ICAO KBMI40.4771°N 88.9159°W871 ft / 266 mMedium airport
On the map
Central Illinois Regional Airport terminal, Nov 2009
Mike Linksvayer from Oakland, California · CC0 · Commons

Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (IATA: BMI, ICAO: KBMI) is a medium airport in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, United States. It opened in 1928. It has 2 runways; the longest is 8,000 ft (2,438 m). In 2025 it handled 317 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1928–2015
1928
OpenedCentral Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal opens.
07 APR 2015
DisasterCentral Illinois Regional Airport crash.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Central Illinois Regional Airport
02/20018° / 198° · LIT
LENGTH8,000 ft2,438 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete
11/29107° / 287° · LIT
LENGTH6,525 ft1,989 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
402K
371K
374K
325K
356K
415K
179K
319K
351K
329K
323K
317K
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Routes

5 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAllegiant Air 3Delta Connection 1FedEx Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BMI. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Central Illinois Regional Airport” (revision of 24 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers317K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,314of 3,974 · #301 North America · #200 USLongest runway8,000 ft2,438 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,749of 29,823 · =583 North America · =438 USElevation871 ft266 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#20,010of 43,341 · #9,204 North America · #7,502 USAgeOpened 19282026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=323of 15,079 · =58 North America · =57 USRunways21 · 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/DPEORIA APP/DEP118.050
ASOSASOS135.350
ATISATIS135.350
CTAFCTAF124.600
GNDGND121.650
RDOKANKAKEE RDO108.200
TWRBLOOMINGTON TWR124.600
UNICUNICOM122.950