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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

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
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: Chicago sectional
Magnetic variation: 4E
In the FAA's files since: October 1953

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

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

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:

Palmer Flying Service INC 4

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Pekin Municipal C15 · 5 nm east General Downing - Peoria International PIA · 11 nm north Ingersoll Airport CTK · 14 nm west Havana Regional 9I0 · 20 nm southwest Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport 3MY · 20 nm north Tri-County 2C6 · 22 nm northwest Logan County AAA · 28 nm southeast Desutter Farm Heliport IL49 · 5 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

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.

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.