Tuscola Airport
K96 · Tuscola, Illinois · Douglas County · map
Tuscola Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles southwest of Tuscola, Illinois, 665 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,660 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA K96
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 665 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, irregular; weekends, on call
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1954
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,660 × 30 ft | Asphalt, good | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 27: threshold displaced 660 ft, road 15 ft high 15 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Tuscola from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Tuscola, Illinois: 3 piston singles, 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- Seasonal crops aer runway 09 can periodically block view of thld lights.
- Runway lgting alignment does not define center of runway. Runway 27 displaced thld lights ntsd: consist of two on each side spaced at 10 feet between lights.
- +15 feet blds 100 feet both sides centerline in prim surface.
- Runway 27 approach ratio is 16:1 from over 13 feet high building 210 feet west of runway end and 23 feet R north of centerline to marked displaced thld. Displaced thld marked by 12 in WD wht stripe across runway and 18 in an X 8 feet wht concrete "angles" on bth sds in grass.
- Surface is a chip and seal.
- Seasonal agricultural operations conducted from airport.
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.