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
- 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
- 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
Aircraft registered in Irvington from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Irvington, IL as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided operations are conducted east of the runway.
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 5, 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.