Routh Airport
9IL2 · St Joseph, Illinois · Champaign County · map
Routh Airport is a private airport owned by Betty Routh/Lowell Routh Fam Trust, 3 miles south of St Joseph, Illinois, 668 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,664 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 9IL2
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Betty Routh/Lowell Routh Fam Trust
- Elevation
- 668 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1992
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,664 × 134 ft | Grass |
- Runway 18: road on the approach
Aircraft registered in St Joseph from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in St Joseph, Illinois: 1 piston single. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided area 125 feet either side of runway centerline and 200 feet off runway ends clear of obstruction (north end must be relocated 200 feet south); obstruction in runway approach slope removed/lowered or ther displaced and marked to provide minimum 20:1 approach clnc over obstruction.
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.