Hector International Airport
Hector International Airport
Hector International Airport (IATA: FAR, ICAO: KFAR, FAA LID: FAR) is a civil-military public airport three miles (5 km) northwest of Fargo, in Cass County, North Dakota, United States. The busiest airport in North Dakota, it is owned by the City of Fargo Municipal Airport Authority. Fargo Air National Guard Base is located adjacent to the airport. The airport was named after Martin Hector, who first leased, and then donated the original 50 acres of land to the city. Customs service is available for arrivals from Canada and other countries. Hector International has no scheduled passenger airline flights out of the country but has its international title (like many other airports) because of this customs service. The airport is home to Fargo Air National Guard Base and the Happy Hooligans of the 119th Wing (119 WG), a unit of the North Dakota Air National Guard that operates the MQ-9 Reaper. The airport was the intended destination for the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson on February 3, 1959. The airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Mason City, Iowa, killing the three musicians and the pilot.
Location
46.921°N, 96.816°O · 275 m s. n. m. (902 ft)
General data
Runways · 3
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 6 Official publication
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
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: 402 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines 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 · 7
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: United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · 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). Hector International Airport (FAR). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/FAR
MLA
“Hector International Airport (FAR).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/FAR. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Hector International Airport (FAR).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/FAR.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Hector International Airport (FAR). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/FAR (Accessed: 17 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Hector International Airport (FAR)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/FAR},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/FAR}},
urldate = {2026-10-17},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}Wikipedia
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