Palmer Flying Service INC Airport
IL45 · Manito, Illinois · Tazewell County · map
Palmer Flying Service INC Airport is a private airport, 3 miles north of Manito, Illinois, 501 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 2,784 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA IL45
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 501 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1953
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 2,784 × 40 ft | Asphalt, fair | Non-standard lights |
| 18/36 | 2,188 × 40 ft | Asphalt and grass, poor |
- Runway 04: threshold displaced 175 ft, tree 58 ft high 1,134 ft from the end
- Runway 22: threshold displaced 448 ft, pole 31 ft high 213 ft from the end
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 700 ft, tree 57 ft high 631 ft from the end
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 80 ft, tree 82 ft high 1,335 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Also here
- crop spraying
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Pekin Municipal (5 nm east), General Downing - Peoria International (11 nm north), Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (20 nm north), Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (39 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Pekin Municipal (5 nm east), General Downing - Peoria International (11 nm north), Ingersoll Airport (14 nm west), Havana Regional (20 nm southwest).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Illinois · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Aircraft taking off on runway 36 cannot see aer 22 when crops grow high.
- Runway 18/36 895 feet by 40 feet asphalt strip superimposed on north end of runway.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights between displaced thlds; fixture spacing and light intst varies.
- Numerous trees; poles and building with maximum tops 75' 182' L of centerline 466' from displaced threshold.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold is 22:1.
- Runway 18 approach ratio is calculated to the displaced thld not the runway end as per photo slope dated 10/23/97.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold is 21:1; approach ratio to displaced threshold over 47' tree 30' from runway end is 2:1.
- Runway 36 approach ratio to displaced threshold is 17:1.
- Grass growing through cracks in blacktop.
- (A42) all displaced thresholds marked with white tires.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Manito from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Manito, Illinois: 5 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 1 piston twin, 1 balloon. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Bradley Flying Association 2 aircraft · Peoria, 13 miles away Bradley Flying Association is a not-for-profit flying club established in 1963 in the Peoria, Illinois area.
- Central Illinois Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Peoria, 13 miles away
- Straight Tail Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Peoria, 13 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Manito 10 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 1 piston twins
- Palmer Flying Service INC 4 aircraft in town
- Bradley Flying Association 2 aircraft · flying club
- Central Illinois Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Straight Tail Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 since 1982 · 251 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Illinois 103 landing places
- Illinois 8,049 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IL45.json.
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 26, 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.