Busboom Airport
0LL5 · St Joseph, Illinois · Champaign County · map
Busboom Airport is a private airport, 1 mile west of St Joseph, Illinois, 675 feet above sea level. Its one runway, E/W, is 2,230 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 0LL5
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 675 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| E/W | 2,230 × 70 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Frasca Field (6 nm west), University Of Illinois/Willard Airport (10 nm southwest), Rantoul Ntl Avn Cntr-Frank Elliott Field (11 nm north), Paxton Airport (20 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Frasca Field (6 nm west), University Of Illinois/Willard Airport (10 nm southwest), Rantoul Ntl Avn Cntr-Frank Elliott Field (11 nm north), Paxton Airport (20 nm north).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Illinois · avgas.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in St Joseph from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in St Joseph, Illinois: 1 piston single. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Summerskyz INC 7 aircraft · Saint Joseph, 2 miles away SummerSkyz is a helicopter flight school and tour operator based in the Chicago area with locations in Lansing and Danville, Illinois.
- Aero Place Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Urbana, 7 miles away
- University of Illinois 12 aircraft · Savoy, 10 miles away
- Engin Aires Aero Club 2 aircraft · Savoy, 10 miles away EnginAires Aero Club is an equity-based flying club founded in 1956 and based at University of Illinois Willard Airport (KCMI) in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
- Beech Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Champaign, 10 miles away Beech Flyers is a flying club based at Van Nuys Airport in California that provides Beechcraft-specific pilot training and aircraft rental.
- Instrument Trainer Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Champaign, 10 miles away D14 Aviation is a flight school offering pilot training programs including private pilot, commercial pilot, certified flight instructor, instrument rating, and multi-engine rating certifications.
- Tab Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Champaign, 10 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in St Joseph 1 aircraft · 1 piston singles
- Summerskyz INC 7 aircraft · flight school
- Aero Place Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- University of Illinois 12 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 since 1982 · 250 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Illinois 103 landing places
- Illinois 8,052 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/0LL5.json.
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 27, 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.