Mount Vernon Airport
MVN · KMVN · Mount Vernon, Illinois · Jefferson County · map
Mount Vernon Airport is a public-use airport owned by Mt Vernon Arpt Authority, 3 miles east of Mount Vernon, Illinois, 480 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 6,496 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MVN · ICAO KMVN
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Mt Vernon Arpt Authority
- Elevation
- 480 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:30 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 6,496 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 15/33 | 3,146 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| H1 | 80 × 40 ft | Concrete | Perimeter lights |
- Runway 05: VASI, four boxes on the left, threshold displaced 774 ft, 5,722 ft available for landing, road 12 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 23: ILS, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 5,572 ft available for landing, trees 97 ft high 2,988 ft from the end
- Runway 15: tree 63 ft high 873 ft from the end
- Runway 33: rr 23 ft high 613 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Mvn and aWOS-3PT | 118.2 | |
| Mount Vernon Center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.7 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 618-809-6024.
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Aircraft registered in Mount Vernon from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Mount Vernon, Illinois: 8 piston singles, 2 helicopters, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 since 1982, 1 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
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 23 - the common traffic frequency. Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 and high-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency night only.
- For pvt use by AIR-EVAC lifeteam only.
- Runway 23 approach lights (MALSR) available daylight hours.
- 12 feet road 0-200 feet from thld 395 feet R to 495 feet R of centerline.
- Approach ratio to displaced thld 34:1 ovr trees 2583 feet from displaced thld 158 feet R of centerline.
- Also 18 feet railroad 238 feet from runway end 498 feet R of centerline 2:1 slope.
- Migratory waterfowl in the vicinity of 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.