Foley Airport
72LL · Princeton, Illinois · Bureau County · map
Foley Airport is a private airport owned by Elm City Reality, 5 miles northeast of Princeton, Illinois, 690 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,641 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 72LL
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Elm City Reality
- Elevation
- 690 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 1978
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,641 × 70 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: Illinois Valley Rgnl-Walter A Duncan Field (9 nm east), Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field (27 nm northwest), Rochelle Muni/Koritz Field (33 nm north), Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (37 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Illinois Valley Rgnl-Walter A Duncan Field (9 nm east), Marshall County (21 nm south), Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field (27 nm northwest), Dixon Muni-Charles R Walgreen Field (28 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
- Provide thresholds are located and clearly marked so as to provide a minimum 20:1 clearance over all obstacles within the runway approach surfaces and sufficient;. remaining usable runway length to permit safe landings/departures by the type aircraft using the strip.
- Trustees.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Princeton from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Princeton, Illinois: 5 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 1 drone, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
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:
- Illinois Valley Flying Club 3 aircraft · Peru, 10 miles away Illinois Valley Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club based at Illinois Valley Regional Airport (KVYS) in Peru, Illinois.
- Starved Rock Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Peru, 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 Princeton 10 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 1 drones
- Jmx Helicopters LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Illinois Valley Flying Club 3 aircraft · flying club
- Starved Rock Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 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 8,049 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/72LL.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 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 26, 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.
