Prairie Airport
83IS · Irvington, Illinois · Jefferson County · map
Prairie Airport is a private airport, 2 miles southeast of Irvington, Illinois, 550 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,800 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 83IS
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 550 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- March to October, weekends, dawn to dusk
- 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 1975
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,800 × 89 ft | Grass |
- Runway 18: trees 40 ft high 1,320 ft from the end
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern, power line 31 ft high 735 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: Centralia Municipal (6 nm north), Mount Vernon Airport (14 nm southeast), Greenville Airport (27 nm northwest), Sparta Community-Hunter Field (32 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Centralia Municipal (6 nm north), Mount Vernon Airport (14 nm southeast), Salem-Leckrone Airport (15 nm northeast), Benton Municipal (27 nm south).
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 operations are conducted east of the runway.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Irvington from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Irvington, IL as the owner's town.
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:
- Airgo INC 23 aircraft · Centralia, 6 miles away Airgo is a flight academy based in Centralia, Illinois, that has provided pilot training since 1968.
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
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 since 1982 · 250 in the last ten years
- Airgo INC 23 aircraft · flight school
- 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/83IS.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.