Bresson Airport
C82 · Compton, Illinois · Lee County · map
Bresson Airport is a public-use airport, 4 miles north of Compton, Illinois, 769 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,590 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C82
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 769 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to dusk
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1951
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,590 × 184 ft | Grass, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 292 ft, berm 7 ft high 40 ft from the end
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 320 ft, road 15 ft high 35 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 |
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Aircraft registered in Compton from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Compton, 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Airport closed winter months when snow covered except for ski equipped aircraft.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights due to NON-FRANGIBLE mountings; spacing and intensity.
- And 36 displaced thlds marked with tires and lights.
- Approach ratio 47:1 at displaced threshold.
- Approach ratio 23:1 at displaced threshold.
- Runway 18/36 edge lights out of service indefinitely.
- Runway 18 displaced thld lights out of service indefinitely.
- Runway 36 displaced thld lights out of service indefinitely.
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.