Keil Airport
6IL5 · Dongola, Illinois · Union County · map
Keil Airport is a private airport, 1 mile north of Dongola, Illinois, 525 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 1,850 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 6IL5
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 525 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
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1991
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 1,850 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 01: power line 20 ft high 100 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: Cape Girardeau Regional (22 nm southwest), Veterans Airport Of Southern Illinois (23 nm north), Southern Illinois Airport (24 nm north), Barkley Regional (27 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Cairo Regional (20 nm south), Cape Girardeau Regional (22 nm southwest), Metropolis Municipal (23 nm southeast), Veterans Airport Of Southern Illinois (23 nm north).
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
- Provided obs in runway approach slope removed/lowered or threshold displaced and marked to prvdmin 20:1 approach clnc over obs; area 125 feet either side runway CL clear of obs; send of runway relocated north at least 200 feet from roads.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Dongola from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Dongola, Illinois: 1 piston single. 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.
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
- Aircraft registered in Dongola 1 aircraft · 1 piston singles
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- 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/6IL5.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.