Gordon Brown Airport
5LL5 · Trivoli, Illinois · Peoria County · map
Gordon Brown Airport is a private airport, 1 mile northeast of Trivoli, Illinois, 745 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 1,800 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 5LL5
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 745 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
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1968
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 1,800 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 18: trees 50 ft high 50 ft from the end
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern, trees on the approach
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: General Downing - Peoria International (9 nm east), Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (14 nm northeast), Pekin Municipal (16 nm southeast), Galesburg Regional HW Timmons (29 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: General Downing - Peoria International (9 nm east), Ingersoll Airport (12 nm southwest), Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (14 nm northeast), Pekin Municipal (16 nm southeast).
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
- Also power line.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Trivoli from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Trivoli, Illinois: 2 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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:
- Bradley Flying Association 2 aircraft · Peoria, 10 miles away Bradley Flying Association is a not-for-profit flying club established in 1963 in the Peoria, Illinois area.
- Central Illinois Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Peoria, 10 miles away
- Straight Tail Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Peoria, 10 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 Trivoli 3 aircraft · 2 piston singles, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Bradley Flying Association 2 aircraft · flying club
- Central Illinois Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Straight Tail Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- 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 8,050 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/5LL5.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 28, 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.