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Benson Municipal Airport (Veterans Field) is a small city-owned general aviation field two miles west of Benson in Swift County, Minnesota. It offers a single lit asphalt runway and straightforward VFR access for pilots visiting west-central Minnesota, with self-service fuel and light traffic typical of a rural municipal strip.
Benson Municipal Airport, also known locally as Veterans Field, is a city-owned public-use aerodrome serving Benson, Minnesota. It is a modest general aviation field with a single paved runway, historically supporting light single-engine and ultralight traffic, and remains a useful VFR waypoint and fuel stop for pilots operating in west-central Minnesota.
The airport lies two miles west of the central business district of Benson, a city in Swift County, Minnesota, at coordinates 45.3319, -95.6506 and an elevation of 1037 feet. It sits beneath the Minneapolis Center area, with the relevant en-route frequency listed as 125.5 MHz.
The airport has one physical runway, 14/32, with a hard surface measuring 3954 feet in length. Both directions are lit for night operations.
Traffic at Benson Municipal is handled on a common CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz. An automated weather observation is available on the AWOS 3, and pilots transiting the wider area should be aware of Minneapolis Center on 125.5 MHz. There is no instrument landing system at the field.
As an uncontrolled field, arriving and departing traffic should make position calls on the 122.8 MHz CTAF/UNICOM frequency and follow standard self-announce procedures typical of non-towered general aviation airports.
Benson Municipal Airport opened at its present site sometime in the late 1930s. The field has seen a number of improvement projects over the decades, the most significant beginning in 1986 with a runway extension and the addition of a parallel taxiway; this work was marked with a completion ceremony on 13 August 1988.
The airport covers 331 acres and continues to support mainly single-engine general aviation traffic, with a small number of ultralights also based there. Self-service 100LL fuel is available on the field, accepting card payment, and an FBO, Jed-Aire Aviation, LLC, operates locally. Pilots planning to visit should check current local arrangements before departure.
