Pinckneyville/Du Quoin Airport
PJY · KPJY · Pinckneyville, Illinois · Perry County · map
Pinckneyville/Du Quoin Airport is a public-use airport, 6 miles southeast of Pinckneyville, Illinois, 400 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,999 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PJY · ICAO KPJY
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 400 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 400 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1978
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,999 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 14 ft high 488 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Marion and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.475 |
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Aircraft registered in Pinckneyville from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Pinckneyville, Illinois: 3 piston singles, 3 drones, 1 piston twin. 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 · 5 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 18 and 36. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset to low intst, to incr intst and activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude: 400 feet above ground level ultralights, 800 feet above ground level all otr aircraft.
- Runway 18 PAPI unusable beyond 8 degreess right of centerline.
- Ultralight operations on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Fuel is self service with credit card.
- Ultralight takeoff and landing operations on grass on west side of runway.
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.