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
- 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
- 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
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Runway 18 approach ratio is 21:1 at displaced thld.
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.