Cottonwood Airport
1C8 · Rockford, Illinois · Winnebago County · map
Cottonwood Airport is a public-use airport owned by Cottonwood CORP, 2 miles northwest of Rockford, Illinois, 741 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,540 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1C8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Cottonwood CORP
- Elevation
- 741 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 300 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,540 × 260 ft | Grass, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 18: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 400 ft, road 15 ft high 37 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Rockford from the FAA register
88 aircraft are registered to owners in Rockford, Illinois: 75 piston singles, 5 piston twins, 3 business jets, 2 helicopters, 1 turboprop. 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 · 6 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
- Minor repairs available on required.
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Runway 36: +70' lighted stadium poles L and R 1300' from runway end.
- Pattern altitude: 300 feet above ground level ultralights, 800 feet above ground level sngl eng.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights south 2250 feet lighted; variable intst and NON-FRANGIBLE mounts.
- Displaced thld marked with white barrels and lights.
- Runway 36 approach ratio 20:1 to dthr.
- Seasonal crops in runway 18 part 77 surface 130 feet from runway end.
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.