Pekin Municipal
C15 · Pekin, Illinois · Tazewell County · map
Pekin Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Pekin, 4 miles south of Pekin, Illinois, 530 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C15
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Pekin
- Elevation
- 530 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1964
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 5,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 125.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Pekin from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Pekin, Illinois: 20 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 1 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
- Wildlife in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 09 and 27; PAPI runway 09 and 27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 preset on low, to incr intst and activate - the common traffic frequency
- Admin building can be accessed by cipher lock which has applicable instructions.
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.