Minot AFB

Minot Air Force Base
Part of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC)
Located near: Minot, North Dakota
B-52H Stratofortress of the 5th Bomb Wing, departing England for home in 1999
Minot AFB Location in the United States
Coordinates	48°24′57″N 101°21′29″W / 48.41583°N 101.35806°W / 48.41583; -101.35806 (Minot AFB)
Site information
Controlled by	United States Air Force
Site history
Built	1957
In use	1957 – present
Garrison information
Garrison	5th Bomb Wing  91st Missile Wing

Airfield information
IATA: MIB ICAO: KMIB FAA LID: MIB
Summary
Elevation AMSL	1,667 ft / 508 m
Coordinates	48°24′57″N 101°21′29″W / 48.41583°N 101.35806°W / 48.41583; -101.35806Coordinates: 48°24′57″N 101°21′29″W / 48.41583°N 101.35806°W / 48.41583; -101.35806
Website	minot.af.mil
Map
KMIB Location of Minot Air Force Base
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 12/30 13,197 4,022 Concrete

Minot Air Force Base (IATA: MIB, ICAO: KMIB, FAA LID: MIB) is a U.S. Air Force installation in Ward County, North Dakota, 13 miles (20 km) north of the city of Minot via U.S. 83. In the 2010 census, the base was counted as a CDP with a total population of 5,521, down from 7,599 in 2000. Minot AFB is the home of two major wings: the 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing, both of the Global Strike Command (AFGSC).

Originally opened 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-tipped 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 the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) in 2009, missiles and manned bombers (excluding the B-1 Lancer) were transferred from AFSPC and ACC to AFGSC in the late 2009 and early 2010.