Bickel Airport
3LL6 · New Athens, Illinois · St Clair County · map
Bickel Airport is a private airport, 5 miles southeast of New Athens, Illinois, 530 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,215 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3LL6
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 530 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- October 2007
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,215 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 18: power line 30 ft high 600 ft from the end
- Runway 36: power line 100 ft high 2,200 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in New Athens from the FAA register
22 aircraft are registered to owners in New Athens, Illinois: 19 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 balloon. 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided clear 20:1 approaches and clear obstacle free zone,
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.