Hilvety Airport
5LL1 · Moweaqua, Illinois · Shelby County · map
Hilvety Airport is a private airport, 3 miles northeast of Moweaqua, Illinois, 674 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 2,102 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 5LL1
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 674 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1950
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,102 × 100 ft | Grass, good | |
| 09/27 | 1,780 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Also here
- gliders, glider towing
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Decatur Airport (12 nm northeast), Shelby County (16 nm southeast), Taylorville Municipal (18 nm southwest), Coles County Memorial (34 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Decatur Airport (12 nm northeast), Shelby County (16 nm southeast), Taylorville Municipal (18 nm southwest), Tuscola Airport (32 nm east).
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.
- Approach ratio 16:1 to displaced threshold.
- Brush inside transition area at south end runway 17/35.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Moweaqua from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Moweaqua, Illinois: 3 piston singles, 1 drone. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Illinois.
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:
- Decatur Aero Club INC 3 aircraft · Decatur, 14 miles away
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
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
- Aircraft registered in Moweaqua 4 aircraft · 3 piston singles, 1 drones
- Decatur Aero Club INC 3 aircraft · flying club
- 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/5LL1.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.