Aircraft Disinsection in Billings, MT: Billings Logan International Airport (BIL)

About Billings Logan International Airport

Billings Logan International tops the rimrocks overlooking Montana’s largest city, the regional center for energy, agriculture, and healthcare in the Yellowstone valley. For much of eastern Montana and northern Wyoming, this field is the practical airline connection to the rest of the country. Corporate and medical flights are constants, and the 10,518-ft main runway ranks among the longest in Montana.

On the field at BIL

Located 2 miles northwest of Billings in Montana, Billings Logan International Airport sits at 3,662 feet. Runway 10L/28R gives BIL 10,518 feet of asphalt, 150 feet wide. BIL is towered and holds a Part 139 airport operating certificate. The FAA airport record notes U.S. Customs service at BIL by arrangement. FBOs serving BIL include Edwards Jet Center and Beacon Air Group; we treat the aircraft at whichever ramp or hangar it is parked on. The treatment is scheduled around your departure from BIL and completed before passengers arrive.

Where the aircraft disinsection requirement comes from

Think of it from the arrival end: the destination expects a treated aircraft and a certificate. Pre-embarkation gives it both, provided the treatment happens at the last port before that country. Non-stop from BIL, that is BIL; with a stop en route, the plan changes and we tell you how.

Operators leaving BIL meet the disinsection requirement on routes in several directions: transatlantic to Italy, south to Barbados and Chile, and, on ultra-long-range aircraft, east to India. Australia, New Zealand are typical from Billings. Whatever the destination, an aircraft leaving Billings Logan International Airport is expected to arrive treated, with a certificate, and pre-embarkation at the last US port is how we deliver that.

The aircraft disinsection process on the BIL ramp

Once the plan is set we work directly with the BIL FBO and your crew on access, ramp position and timing. Our technician arrives before the agreed slot, confirms the aircraft is empty with catering and cleaning done, and applies the WHO pre-embarkation treatment through the cabin, flight deck and holds. After the specified rest and ventilation the aircraft is released for boarding, certificate in hand.

BIL at a glance

Countries that require disinsection, served from BIL

From BIL: Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of the destinations we serve. The full table of aircraft disinsection requirements by country covers every destination we have verified for BIL departures. Australia and New Zealand carry operator paperwork we help with; if either is on a Billings itinerary, start early.