Mount Sterling Municipal
I63 · Mount Sterling, Illinois · Brown County · map
Mount Sterling Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Mount Sterling, 2 miles west of Mount Sterling, Illinois, 734 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 5,905 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA I63
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Mount Sterling
- Elevation
- 734 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1972
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 5,905 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, pole 44 ft high 1,577 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| I63 and aWOS-3PT | 118.325 | |
| Quincy and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.225 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 217-773-4082.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Mount Sterling from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Mount Sterling, Illinois: 4 piston singles, 3 business jets. 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 · 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
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36; PAPI runway 18 and 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 18 appch slope 34: from threshold
- No transient hangars available
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.