Flying Illini Airport
IL80 · De Land, Illinois · Piatt County · map
Flying Illini Airport is a private airport, 2 miles southwest of De Land, Illinois, 710 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,430 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 IL80
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 710 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- April 2016
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,430 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 892 ft, tree 66 ft high 428 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: Decatur Airport (18 nm southwest), University Of Illinois/Willard Airport (19 nm east), Frasca Field (22 nm east), Central IL Rgnl/Bloomington-Normal Airport (25 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Decatur Airport (18 nm southwest), University Of Illinois/Willard Airport (19 nm east), Frasca Field (22 nm east), Central IL Rgnl/Bloomington-Normal Airport (25 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
- Runway 18 approach ratio is 21:1 at displaced thld.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in De Land from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in De Land, Illinois: 1 drone. 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.
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 De Land 1 aircraft · 1 drones
- 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 8,052 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IL80.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 27, 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.