Rinkenberger Airport
3IS8 · Bradford, Illinois · Bureau County · map
Rinkenberger Airport is a private airport, 3 miles northeast of Bradford, Illinois, 808 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 2,614 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 3IS8
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 808 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1944
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,614 × 190 ft | Grass | |
| 18/36 | 1,932 × 190 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: Illinois Valley Rgnl-Walter A Duncan Field (22 nm east), Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (26 nm south), Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field (31 nm north), General Downing - Peoria International (34 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Marshall County (16 nm southeast), Kewanee Municipal (16 nm west), Illinois Valley Rgnl-Walter A Duncan Field (22 nm east), Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (26 nm south).
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.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Three 112 feet marked and lighted towers inboard of runway 08 threshold, L of centerline.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Bradford from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Bradford, IL as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- 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 8,055 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/3IS8.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.