Landing essentials
Whether you can land, whether you can refuel, and how customs works here.
Overview
Blains is a private-use airport near Billings, Montana, sitting at 3,200 feet elevation. It is unattended, with no tower and no traffic data reported, and the nearest customs facility is at Bozeman, over 100 nm away.
Blains Airport has one paved runway, 08/26, 4,696 ft long and 75 ft wide, with an asphalt surface.
Source: FAA Form 5010.
The airport has no control tower.
Source: FAA Form 5010 / NASR.
Blains Airport does not clear customs. The nearest port of entry is Bozeman Yellowstone International (KBZN), 108 NM away.
Source: CBP list of ports of entry.
Blains Airport averages 18.6 days above 90°F in July, 29.0 freeze days in January and 3.5 snow days in February. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 88.7°F, and January the coldest, at 37.2°F.
Weather station is 2.1 NM from the field. Some values are estimated by the agency. 1991–2020 climate normals.
Source: NOAA NCEI.
Blains Airport has published operating constraints in one category: access.
For clearance delivery, contact Billings Approach.
Source: FAA Chart Supplement.
Blains Airport has five airfields within 46 NM. The closest is Billings Logan International (KBIL), 5.72 NM north.
Source: Skystar calculation from official coordinates.
We arrange catering, fuel and trip support here. Supplier prices reach you unchanged; our coordination fee sits on its own line.
$600.00 catering order at 63MT.
What the kitchen invoices us is what your quote reads.
The $75 minimum applies below $862.50.
Passed on at the exact amount the processor took.
Market practice figures are industry averages, not a specific competitor.
No fuel type is listed in the data for Blains Airport. Dispatchers planning a stop here should arrange fuel at a nearby field, such as Billings Logan International, roughly 6 nm away.
Blains Airport has a single paved runway, 08/26, measuring 4,696 feet long and 75 feet wide with an asphalt surface. There is no tower and the field is unattended, so operations rely on self-announced procedures.
Blains Airport has no onsite customs. The nearest customs facility is Bozeman Yellowstone International (KBZN), about 108 nm away, and clearance delivery for this area is handled through Billings Approach.