Cushing Field LTD
0C8 · Newark, Illinois · La Salle County · map
Cushing Field LTD is a public-use airport, 2 miles southwest of Newark, Illinois, 640 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,831 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 0C8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 640 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- November to April, every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1975
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,831 × 180 ft | Grass, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 380 ft, power line 24 ft high 100 ft from the end
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 250 ft, other on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 |
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Aircraft registered in Newark from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Newark, Illinois: 10 piston singles, 4 drones, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 since 1982, 3 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided runway thresholds are located so as to provide a minimum obstruction clrnc.
- Ultralight activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights; light intst varies; non FAA apvd L-800 series.
- Runway 18/36 dthr marked with white painted wood with thld light adjacent to each mkr.
- Controlling obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Runway 36 approach ratio 13:1 to dthr.
- Power line marked with orange balls.
- Seasonal crop
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.