Red Lodge Airport

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Red Lodge Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Red Lodge & Carbon County
Serves Red Lodge, Montana
Elevation  AMSL 5,763 ft / 1,757 m
Coordinates 45°11′10″N109°15′28″W / 45.18611°N 109.25778°W / 45.18611; -109.25778
Red Lodge Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
16/344,0001,219Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations8,050
Based aircraft14

Red Lodge Airport( ICAO : KRED, FAA LID : RED) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the central business district of Red Lodge, a city in Carbon County, Montana, United States. It is owned by the City of Red Lodge and Carbon County. [1] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a general aviation airport. [2]

Contents

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned RED by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA [3] (which assigned RED to Mifflin County Airport in Reedsville, Pennsylvania [4] ).

Facilities and aircraft

Red Lodge Airport covers an area of 212 acres (86  ha ) at an elevation of 5,763 feet (1,757 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m). [1]

For the 12-month period ending September 20, 2005, the airport had 8,050 aircraft operations, an average of 22 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 14 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-engine and 14% multi-engine. [1]

Acedents and incidents

On February 21, 2020 a plane crashes on the landing strip at the red lodge airport, local carbon county sheriffs and red lodge firefighters respond to the crash.

also sometime in 2020 a plane crashed near a water tower in red lodge

On August 8, 2023 a Boeing A75N1 crash after striking trees after taking off from red lodge airport.

An Boeing model 75 similar to the one that crashed in 2023 Boeing E75 OTT2013 D7N9597 BEA 005.jpg
An Boeing model 75 similar to the one that crashed in 2023

On August 31, 2025 a naval aircraft factory N3N-3 biplane crashed after striking a power line southeast of red lodge airport nearly missing a house.

An N3N similar to the one that crashed in 2025 N3N USMC over Parris Island 1942.jpg
An N3N similar to the one that crashed in 2025

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for RED PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 8 April 2010.
  2. ↑ National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 3 (PDF, 1.28 MB) Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine . Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.
  3. ↑ "Red Lodge, Montana - Red Lodge Airport (ICAO: KRED, FAA: RED)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
  4. ↑ "Reedsville, Pennsylvania - Mifflin County Airport (IATA: RED, ICAO: KRVL, FAA: RVL)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
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