Dury Estates Airport
IL71 · Hurst, Illinois · Jackson County · map
Dury Estates Airport is a private airport, 1 mile wsw of Hurst, Illinois, 395 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 2,509 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 IL71
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 395 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- January 2006
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 2,509 × 200 ft | Grass |
- Runway 01: trees 25 ft high 530 ft from the end
- Runway 19: trees 38 ft high 765 ft from the end
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: Southern Illinois Airport (5 nm southwest), Veterans Airport Of Southern Illinois (8 nm southeast), Harrisburg-Raleigh Airport (29 nm east), Sparta Community-Hunter Field (33 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Southern Illinois Airport (5 nm southwest), Veterans Airport Of Southern Illinois (8 nm southeast), Pinckneyville/Du Quoin Airport (14 nm northwest), Benton Municipal (15 nm northeast).
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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Hurst from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Hurst, Illinois: 1 piston single. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
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:
- Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University 35 aircraft · Murphysboro, 10 miles away Southern Illinois University is a public university system with campuses at Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois.
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 · 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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Hurst 1 aircraft · 1 piston singles
- Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University 35 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- 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 8,050 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IL71.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 28, 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.