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Percival Springs Airport

2T2 · Watson, Illinois · Effingham County · map

Percival Springs Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southeast of Watson, Illinois, 552 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,000 feet of grass.

The airport

Codes: FAA 2T2
Kind: Airport · open to the public · privately owned
Elevation: 552 feet above sea level
Pattern altitude: 400 feet above the airport
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: every day, 8:00 am to dusk
Lights: beacon sunset to sunrise
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: St Louis sectional
Magnetic variation: 0E
In the FAA's files since: March 1983

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
18/36	2,000 × 100 ft	Grass, fair

Runway 18: road 15 ft high 305 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.9

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Aircraft registered in Watson from the FAA register

1 aircraft are registered to owners in Watson, 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Effingham County Regional 1H2 · 3 nm north Flora Municipal FOA · 21 nm south Olney-Noble Airport OLY · 24 nm southeast Shelby County 2H0 · 28 nm northwest Vandalia Municipal VLA · 29 nm west Salem-Leckrone Airport SLO · 30 nm southwest Arch - Effingham Heliport 77IL · 4 nm north · private St. Anthony Memorial Hospital Heliport 11IS · 7 nm north · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Flashing strobe on building at north end of field.
Pilots advd to mnt 122.725 due to close proximity of effimgham county meml.
Lighted windsock on top of building is lighted with flood light, primarily for ems activity.
Runway has 300' stopway at north end.
Runway ends marked with one orange cone on each side of runway end.
Predominantly ultralight and stol activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
Ems helicopter operation with extensive activity is based at north end of this airport. Operation is continuous.

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.