Tri-Township Airport
SFY · KSFY · Savanna, Illinois · Carroll County · map
Tri-Township Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles southeast of Savanna, Illinois, 616 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 4,001 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)) and about 10 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 4,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KSFY · observed 6:15 pm CDT (23:15 UTC), 16 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southwest (200°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 72°F (22°C), dew point 50°F (10°C)
- Altimeter 29.86 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KSFY 062315Z AUTO 20007KT 10SM CLR 22/10 A2986 RMK AO2 T02230100
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SFY · ICAO KSFY
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 616 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1948
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 4,001 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 15 ft high 310 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 125.95 | |
| Sfy and aWOS-3PT | 118.650 | |
| Moline and center (remote transmitter) Low | 118.75 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 815-273-4429.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 4,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Savanna from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Savanna, Illinois: 1 piston single. 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
- Provided thresholds located/marked to provide minimum 20:1 clrnc over obs. 250'PRIM surface estbd clr of all obs, farm eqpmt road prim surface abnd.
- Activate PAPI runway 13 and 31; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 preset on low intst, to incr intst and activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Fuel available 24 hours with credit card.
- PAPI unusable beyond 8 degrees right of centerline.
- PAPI unusable beyond 7 degrees left and 9 degrees right of centerline.
- Irrigation sprinkler system operations seasonally under runway 31.
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.