Jacksonville Municipal
IJX · KIJX · Jacksonville, Illinois · Morgan County · map
Jacksonville Municipal is a public-use airport owned by Jacksonville Airport Auth, 3 miles north of Jacksonville, Illinois, 624 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA IJX · ICAO KIJX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Jacksonville Airport Auth
- Elevation
- 624 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to dusk
- 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
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1950
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 5,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 04/22 | 4,001 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: VASI, four boxes on the left
- Runway 31: trees 65 ft high 1,184 ft from the end
- Runway 04: tree 57 ft high 1,227 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Clearance delivery | 118.45 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.15 | |
| Ijx and aWOS-3PT | 120.525 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 217-243-6379.
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 Jacksonville from the FAA register
31 aircraft are registered to owners in Jacksonville, Illinois: 17 piston singles, 14 drones. 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 · 7 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
- Deer on and in the vicinity of of airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31, 04/22, runway end identifier lights runways 22, 13 and 31, and taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency.
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.