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KMIB Minot Air Force Base VFR

  • Name
    Minot Air Force Base
  • ICAO / IATA / GPS
    KMIB / MIB / KMIB
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    3:22 am (CST)
  • Municipality
    Minot
  • Coordinates
    48° 24′ 56″ N 101° 21′ 28″ E
  • Elevation
    1’667 ft (508 m MSL)

About Minot Air Force Base

Minot Air Force Base ( MY-not; IATA: MIB, ICAO: KMIB, FAA LID: MIB) is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation in Ward County, North Dakota, thirteen miles (20 km) north of the city of Minot via U.S. Route 83. In the 2020 census, the base was counted as a CDP with a total population of 5,017, down from 5,521 in 2010. Minot AFB is the home of two major wings: the 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing, both of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).

Originally opened 67 years ago in 1957 as an Air Defense Command (ADC) base, Minot AFB became a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base in the early 1960s, with both nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles and manned bombers and aerial refueling aircraft.

When SAC was inactivated in 1992, the nuclear mission of the base was divided between two commands, with missiles going to the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) and manned bombers to the Air Combat Command (ACC). With the establishment of AFGSC in 2009, missiles and manned bombers (excluding the B-1 Lancer) were transferred from AFSPC and ACC to AFGSC in late 2009 and early 2010.

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