Curless Airport
IS08 · Summum, Illinois · Fulton County · map
Curless Airport is a private airport, 2 miles east of Summum, Illinois, 620 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 3,400 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 IS08
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 620 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
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1980
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 3,400 × 110 ft | Grass |
- Runway 05: road 15 ft high 225 ft from the end
- Runway 23: tree 68 ft high 740 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: Macomb Municipal (24 nm northwest), Jacksonville Municipal (29 nm south), Pekin Municipal (29 nm northeast), Mount Sterling Municipal (31 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Havana Regional (10 nm east), Ingersoll Airport (20 nm north), Macomb Municipal (24 nm northwest), Jacksonville Municipal (29 nm south).
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
- Attended year round weather permitting.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Summum from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Summum, IL as the owner's town.
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
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,118 since 1982 · 251 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 8,067 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IS08.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 November 6, 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.