Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field
SQI · KSQI · Sterling/Rockfalls, Illinois · Whiteside County · map
Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field is a public-use airport owned by Whiteside County, 2 miles south of Sterling/Rockfalls, Illinois, 648 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 07/25, is 6,499 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 39 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 32,720 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KSQI · observed 5:56 pm CDT (22:56 UTC), 37 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind variable at 3 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 73°F (23°C), dew point 48°F (9°C)
- Altimeter 29.90 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 KSQI 062256Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM CLR 23/09 A2990 RMK AO2 SLP122 T02280089 $
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 SQI · ICAO KSQI
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Whiteside County
- Elevation
- 648 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 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
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1948
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 6,499 × 150 ft | Asphalt, fair | High-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 3,900 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 07: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 25: ILS with DME, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Clearance delivery | 128.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.0 | |
| Sqi and aWOS-3PT | 119.175 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 815-626-2704.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 32,720, 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 Sterling/Rockfalls from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Sterling/Rockfalls, IL as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 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
- Runway 07 preferred calm wind runway.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset on low intst; to incr intst and activate high-intensity runway lights runway 07/25; approach lights (MALSR) runway 25 and runway end identifier lights runways 07, 18 and 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Airport unatndd new years; xmas and thanksgiving.
- 100LL and jet a fuel dispenser is self serve with credit card.
- Terminal building can be accessed after hours by cipher lock which has applicable instructions
- Oxygen service unavailable.
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.