Thrifty Acres Airport
4IL3 · Stillman Valley (Byron), Illinois · Ogle County · map
Thrifty Acres Airport is a private airport, 3 miles northwest of Stillman Valley (Byron), Illinois, 725 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 750 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 4IL3
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 725 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1993
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 750 × 70 ft | Grass |
- Runway 01: threshold displaced 430 ft, trees 30 ft high 50 ft from the end
- Runway 19: threshold displaced 480 ft, trees 80 ft high 770 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Chicago/Rockford International (7 nm northeast), Rochelle Muni/Koritz Field (16 nm southeast), Albertus Airport (17 nm west), DE Kalb Taylor Municipal (26 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Chicago/Rockford International (7 nm northeast), Rochelle Muni/Koritz Field (16 nm southeast), Albertus Airport (17 nm west), Dixon Muni-Charles R Walgreen Field (21 nm southwest).
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
- Limited to stol aircraft; 125 feet either side and 200 feet off the ends of runway be clear of obstructions or obstructions removed/lowered or threshold displaced to provide 20:1 clnc.
- Usable runway between displaced threshold is 750' - over all property length is 1650'
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Stillman Valley (Byron) from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Stillman Valley (Byron), IL as the owner's town.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Cottonwood Flying Club 2 aircraft · Rockford, 11 miles away
- Blackhawk Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Rockford, 11 miles away Blackhawk Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club based at Chicago/Rockford Airport (RFD) in Illinois.
- Rock River Flyers 1 aircraft · Mount Morris, 11 miles away Rock River Flyers, Inc.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,118 since 1982 · 251 in the last ten years
- Cottonwood Flying Club 2 aircraft · flying club
- Blackhawk Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Rock River Flyers 1 aircraft · flight school
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Illinois 103 landing places
- Illinois 8,069 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/4IL3.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 November 9, 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.