Smith Airport
6LL5 · New Berlin, Illinois · Sangamon County · map
Smith Airport is a private airport, 6 miles northwest of New Berlin, Illinois, 632 feet above sea level. Its one runway, E/W, is 2,200 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 6LL5
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 632 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
- April 1974
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| E/W | 2,200 × 100 ft | Grass |
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: Jacksonville Municipal (11 nm west), Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (15 nm east), Taylorville Municipal (34 nm southeast), Pittsfield Penstone Municipal (37 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Jacksonville Municipal (11 nm west), Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (15 nm east), Havana Regional (26 nm north), Taylorville Municipal (34 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
- To provide a minimum of 20-1 approach slope clrnc over the obstructions.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in New Berlin from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in New Berlin, Illinois: 2 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.
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 New Berlin 3 aircraft · 2 piston singles, 1 drones
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,118 since 1982 · 251 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 8,060 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/6LL5.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 2, 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.