Block Airport
88LL · Pearl City, Illinois · Carroll County · map
Block Airport is a private airport, 5 miles south of Pearl City, Illinois, 917 feet above sea level. Its one runway, N/S, is 1,600 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 88LL
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 917 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
- April 1977
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/S | 1,600 × 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: Albertus Airport (12 nm east), Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field (28 nm south), Monroe Municipal (28 nm northeast), Clinton Municipal (31 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Albertus Airport (12 nm east), Tri-Township Airport (15 nm southwest), Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field (28 nm south), Dixon Muni-Charles R Walgreen Field (28 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
- E111:provided all traffic pattern operations are conducted east of the runway.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Pearl City from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Pearl City, Illinois: 5 drones, 4 piston singles. 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:
- Freeport Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Freeport, 14 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 Pearl City 9 aircraft · 5 drones, 4 piston singles
- Agrisoar Solutions LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Spring Valley Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Freeport Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- 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 8,055 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/88LL.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 29, 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.