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A visual aerial line transect survey for common minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) was conducted off West Greenland in August-September 2007. A total of 8670 km of survey effort covered 14 strata in sea states <5 with a total stratum area of 213,996 km2. The 27 sightings of minke whales were all within a strip width of 300m and the average time from first detection to when the sighting passed abeam was 1.7 sec. Due to the uniform and narrow distribution of the detections strip census methods were used to analyze the survey. Two methods were deployed to correct the strip census estimates for whales missed by the observers and whales that were submerged during the passage of the plane. Method 1 included all detections of minke whales (n=27) and correction for an instantaneous availability that included submergence of whales. Using only data from sea states <3 (n=22) the ‘at surface ’ abundance of minke whales was 1,866 (cv=0.30) whales and a correction for whales missed by the observers with a simple mark-recapture estimator resulted in a corrected abundance of 1,904 (0.31) whales. Adjusting for the availability bias resulted in a fully corrected estimate of 17,307 (95 % 7,628-39,270) minke whales. Method 2 used only detections of minke whales that were observed to break the surface (n=19). Applying this method to effort data at sea state<3 (n=14) results in an ‘at surface ’ abundance of 1,208 (cv=0.36) whales and correcting for whales missed by the observers increased the abundance to 1,233 (0.37) whales. Adjusting for the availability bias resulted in a fully corrected estimate of 22,952 (95 % CI 8,444-62,383) minke whales