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Herrens Bess Hollow Airfield

LL77 · Kampsville, Illinois · Adams County · map

Herrens Bess Hollow Airfield is a private airport, 4 miles west of Kampsville, Illinois, 580 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 1,924 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA LL77
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 580 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: St Louis sectional
In the FAA's files since: December 2010

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
06/24	1,924 × 100 ft	Grass

Runway 06: trees 85 ft high 1,300 ft from the end
Runway 24: trees 70 ft high 1,100 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Kampsville from the FAA register

6 aircraft are registered to owners in Kampsville, Illinois: 4 drones, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Fraley Aerial Application LLC 4

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Pittsfield Penstone Municipal PPQ · 20 nm north Bowling Green Municipal H19 · 24 nm west St. Charles County Rgnl/Smartt Field SET · 26 nm southeast Greensfield Airport M71 · 27 nm southwest Barber Airport 38MO · 8 nm west · private Village Of Hardin Heliport 36LL · 9 nm south · private Sloan'S Airport 0MO8 · 10 nm south · private Hartwell Ranch Airport 79IS · 11 nm northeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided clear 20:1 approach maintained; obstruction free ingress/egress rtes.
911 address: 2924 Bess Hollow road Kampsville, IL 62053

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.