Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal
Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal
Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington–Normal (IATA: BMI, ICAO: KBMI, FAA LID: BMI) is a public airport in McLean County, Illinois, three miles east of Bloomington and southeast of Normal. Owned by the Bloomington–Normal Airport Authority, it is also known as Central Illinois Regional Airport (CIRA). The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 262,846 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 243,448 in 2009 and 274,677 in 2010. In 2023, Central Illinois Regional Airport saw 164,672 passenger boardings ranking the airport as the 198th busiest airport in the United States. The 2013 Federal sequester would have resulted in the closure of the airport's control tower, but the Federal Aviation Administration ultimately reversed its decision.
Location
40.477°N, 88.916°O · 265 m s. n. m. (871 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 6 Official publication
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
Automated weather
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 193 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.
Types seen here
Bombardier CRJ123
Embraer ERJ 135 / 14532
Embraer E170 / E17510
Airbus A3193
Airbus A3211
Boeing 737 MAX1Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 3
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Mike Linksvayer from Oakland, California · CC0 · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (BMI). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BMI
MLA
“Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (BMI).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BMI. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (BMI).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BMI.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (BMI). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BMI (Accessed: 17 October 2026).
BibTeX
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title = {{Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (BMI)}},
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