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Missoula Montana Airport

Missoula, United States · North America

North America America/Denver

13direct destinations

9airlines

1runway

2,896 mLongest runway

155Aircraft documented

Missoula Montana Airport (IATA: MSO, ICAO: KMSO, FAA LID: MSO) is located in Missoula, in Missoula County, Montana. It is owned by the Missoula County Airport Authority. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 288,071 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 281,428 in 2009 and 289,875 in 2010. Several expansion projects have been completed in recent years. A 101-foot control tower was completed in September 2012. An expansion of the old terminal building, with a new security screening area, was completed in 2007. In 2022, construction finished on the new terminal. In September 2021, the airport changed its name from Missoula International Airport to Missoula Montana Airport. Missoula's airport is home to a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper base, the largest of seven in the nation.

Location

46.916°N, 114.091°O · 977 m s. n. m. (3.206 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States

CityMissoula

IATA codeMSO

ICAO codeKMSO

Coordinates46.916°N, 114.091°O

Elevation977 m s. n. m. (3.206 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Denver

Runways1

Longest runway2,896 m

Direct destinations13

Official website

Runways · 1

12/30

Length2,896 m9,501 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 6 Official publication

Tower

118.400TWR · CTAF

Ground

121.900

ATIS (automatic information)

126.650

Approach

124.900APP · DEP127.075ARTCC · APP CLSD

UNICOM

122.950

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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.

History

Missoula's first landing strip was laid out in 1923 south of the university. An additional strip near the Western Montana Fair Grounds on what is now Sentinel High School was sold to the county in 1927 at the request of the Missoula chapter of the National Aeronautic Association and would become Missoula's first true airport. The current airfield is named after that chapter's first president, Harry O. Bell, along with mountain flying pioneer Bob Johnson of Johnson Flying Service (now Minuteman Aviation).

The original Garden City Airport was renamed Hale Field in 1935, and operated as such until closing forever in 1954.

The airport was gradually replaced by the Missoula County Airport, opened in 1941 with WPA funds, and the cooperation of the US Forest Service, which needed access to an airport. The new airport was renamed Johnson-Bell Field in 1968 and today serves over 750,000 passengers a year.

What flies here

From our own logbook: 155 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.

155Aircraft documented

27,569Movements recorded

2006–2025Years on record

Types seen here

Bombardier CRJ46

Embraer E170 / E17518

De Havilland Canada Dash 88

Airbus A3192

Airlines with documented aircraft

SkyWest Airlines 108 Horizon Air 34 Envoy Air 10 American Airlines 2 Delta Air Lines 1

Busiest routes from here

SLCSalt Lake City6,333 flights DENDenver542 flights SEASeattle50 flights

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 · 9

Other airlines with direct routes

Alaska Airlines Allegiant Air American Eagle Delta Air Lines United Airlines United Express American Airlines Delta Connection Sun Country Airlines

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Alaskaair · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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). Missoula Montana Airport (MSO). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MSO

MLA

“Missoula Montana Airport (MSO).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MSO. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Missoula Montana Airport (MSO)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-16},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MSO},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MSO}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-16},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}

Wikipedia

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