Galt Field
10C · Greenwood/Wonder Lake, Illinois · Mc Henry County · map
Galt Field is a public-use airport owned by Flagship Phoenix, INC, 1 mile north of Greenwood/Wonder Lake, Illinois, 875 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 2,802 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 32 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 40,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 10C
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Flagship Phoenix, INC
- Elevation
- 875 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1958
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,802 × 36 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
| 18/36 | 2,141 × 125 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 09: threshold displaced 415 ft
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 213 ft
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 149 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 120.55 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 40,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Greenwood/Wonder Lake from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Greenwood/Wonder Lake, IL as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 since 1982, 2 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Runway 09/27 non-standard low-intensity runway lights with non-standard spacing; 2669 feet lighted at night.
- Runway 09 has +10 feet terrain 136 feet from runway end and 5 feet left of runway centerline. Clear 20:1 to marked displaced threshold
- Clear 20:1 to runway 09 threshold
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- 100LL self serve fuel available 24 hour with credit card
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.