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Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (KBZN) lies in the Gallatin Valley of southwestern Montana, a few miles northwest of Bozeman near Belgrade, and is the busiest airport in the state as well as the principal year-round gateway to Yellowstone National Park. It combines scheduled airline traffic with general aviation operations at a high-elevation field surrounded by mountain scenery, offering a long, ILS-equipped hard runway alongside shorter strips.
Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport serves Bozeman, Belgrade and the wider Gallatin Valley in southwestern Montana, and is owned and operated by the Gallatin Airport Authority. It has been Montana's busiest airport since 2013 and functions as the principal air gateway to Yellowstone National Park as well as to Big Sky Ski Resort, Bridger Bowl Ski Area and Montana State University. For a simulator pilot the appeal lies in its high field elevation, a long hard-surfaced runway equipped with an ILS, shorter secondary strips, and a dramatic mountain-valley setting.
The airport sits in Belgrade, Montana, close to Bozeman, in the Gallatin Valley of southwestern Montana. It is a towered field, with Bozeman Tower providing air traffic control, and its traffic is worked within the wider area covered by Salt Lake City Center. The field handles a mix of scheduled airline and general aviation traffic and is described by the Federal Aviation Administration as a medium-sized, multi-use airport that is especially busy between 10am and 2pm local.
The airport has three physical runways. The main runway, 12/30, is 8,975 feet long with a hard, lit surface and is equipped with an ILS on runway 12. Runway 03/21 is a hard-surfaced runway, listed at 2,641 feet in the 03 direction and 3,400 feet in the 21 direction. Runway 11R/29L is a gravel runway of 3,399 feet.
Bozeman Tower operates on 118.2 MHz, which also serves as the field's CTAF. Ground control works on 121.8 MHz, and the ATIS broadcasts on 135.425 MHz. UNICOM is available on 122.95 MHz. Great Falls Radio can be reached on 122.5 MHz, and the field lies within the airspace worked by Salt Lake City Center on 132.4 MHz. An ILS approach is available to runway 12.
The airport lies in the Gallatin Valley between Bozeman and Belgrade, with Bridger Bowl Ski Area and Big Sky Ski Resort in the surrounding mountains providing useful orientation landmarks for pilots approaching the field. Montana State University in nearby Bozeman is another local landmark associated with the area.
The airport was historically known as Gallatin Field before the Gallatin Airport Authority Board renamed it Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport at Gallatin Field in 2011, associating it more closely with Yellowstone National Park. International flights became possible from 2012, after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility opened on 1 July of that year, a project funded in cooperation with Signature Flight Support and the Yellowstone Club. In 2013 the airport surpassed Billings Logan International to become Montana's busiest airport for passenger service, recording 879,221 passengers between June 2012 and May 2013.
Today the airport offers year-round non-stop flights to more than a dozen major hub cities including Denver, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St Paul, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Phoenix/Mesa, Las Vegas, Seattle/Tacoma, San Francisco and Portland, with a number of seasonal routes added in summer. It is served by Alaska, Allegiant, American, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Southwest, Sun Country and United, alongside general aviation activity, and remains Montana's busiest airport. The airport authority has been carrying out ongoing terminal expansion and construction projects, including an East Terminal Expansion, reflecting continued growth in traffic through the field.
