Paxton Airport
1C1 · Paxton, Illinois · Ford County · map
Paxton Airport is a public-use airport owned by 1C1, LLC, 2 miles southwest of Paxton, Illinois, 779 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,409 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1C1
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- 1C1, LLC
- Elevation
- 779 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1968
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,409 × 50 ft | Asphalt, poor | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 800 ft, tree 56 ft high 601 ft from the end
- Runway 36: tri-color on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.35 |
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Aircraft registered in Paxton from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Paxton, Illinois: 4 piston singles. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 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
- All operations to be condd on east side of north/south runway.
- Aft hour aces to AP term via cipher lock hint to combo posted.
- Self serve 100LL and jet a
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights - fixture spacing and light intsty varies.
- 20 feet building 120 feet from runway end and 130 feet R of centerline.
- Dthr painted white line air carriers runway.
- Runway 18 markings faded.
- Runway 36 markings faded.
- Approach ratio 25:1 to dthr.
- Runway 18/36 has widespread cracking with vegetation growing in cracks.
- Summer agricultural operations.
- 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.