Cottonwood Airport
IL57 · Bloomington, Illinois · Mc Lean County · map
Cottonwood Airport is a private airport, 5 miles southwest of Bloomington, Illinois, 746 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 1,800 feet of grass.
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 IL57
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 746 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1992
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 1,800 × 134 ft | Grass |
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Central IL Rgnl/Bloomington-Normal Airport (6 nm northeast), Pekin Municipal (30 nm west), General Downing - Peoria International (34 nm northwest), Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (35 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Central IL Rgnl/Bloomington-Normal Airport (6 nm northeast), Logan County (21 nm southwest), Pekin Municipal (30 nm west), General Downing - Peoria International (34 nm northwest).
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
- Provided area 125 feet either side of runway centerline and 200 feet off runway ends clear of obstruction; any obstruction in runway approach slope removed/lowered or runway threshold displaced and marked to provide minimum 20:1 approach clnc over obstruction.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Bloomington from the FAA register
48 aircraft are registered to owners in Bloomington, Illinois: 39 piston singles, 4 business jets, 3 piston twins, 2 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, 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:
- Crosswinds Flying Club INC 8 aircraft · Bloomington, 5 miles away Crosswinds Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club based at Central Illinois Regional Airport (BMI) in Bloomington, Illinois.
Charter operators and airlines based in Bloomington:
- Synergy Flight Center LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate Synergy Flight Center is a fixed-base operator and charter company based in Bloomington, Illinois, with a location in Wheeling.
Repair stations in Bloomington:
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 Bloomington 48 aircraft · 39 piston singles, 4 business jets, 3 piston twins
- Crosswinds Flying Club INC 5 aircraft in town
- Synergy Aircraft Sales LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Prairie Aviation Museum INC 2 aircraft in town
- Cross Winds Flying Club INC 2 aircraft in town
- Synergy Flight Center LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Crosswinds Flying Club INC 8 aircraft · flying club
- Synergy Flight Center LLC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 since 1982 · 250 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 8,055 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IL57.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.