North Platte Regional Airport Lee Bird Field

ICAO KLBF41.1262°N 100.6840°W2,777 ft / 846 mMedium airport

North Platte Regional Airport Lee Bird Field (IATA: LBF, ICAO: KLBF) is a medium airport in North Platte, Nebraska, United States. It has 2 runways; the longest is 8,001 ft (2,439 m). In 2025 it handled 31 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

12/30126° / 306° · LIT

LENGTH8,001 ft2,439 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete

17/35181° / 001° · LIT

LENGTH4,436 ft1,352 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025

10K

28K

32K

19K

27K

32K

31K

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round1

DENDenver International AirportUnited States · United Express366 km227 mi

Cargo1

OMAEppley AirfieldUnited States · FedEx Express401 km249 mi

Most destinationsUnited Express 1FedEx Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LBF. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “North Platte Regional Airport” (revision of 20 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers31K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,276of 3,974 · #530 North America · #361 US Longest runway8,001 ft2,439 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,730of 29,823 · =564 North America · =419 US Elevation2,777 ft846 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=6,070of 43,341 · =2,951 North America · =2,276 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

5 channels

ASOSASOS118.425

CLDCLNC DEL132.700

CNTRDENVER CNTR132.700

RDOCOLUMBUS RDO122.500

UNICCTAF/UNICOM123.000