Taylorville Municipal
TAZ · KTAZ · Taylorville, Illinois · Christian County · map
Taylorville Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Taylorville, 2 miles southwest of Taylorville, Illinois, 622 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 4,001 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TAZ · ICAO KTAZ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Taylorville
- Elevation
- 622 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 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
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1947
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,001 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09R/27L | 3,501 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09L/27R | 1,933 × 165 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18: pulsating on the left
- Runway 36: pulsating on the left
- Runway 09R: pulsating on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 27L: pulsating on the left
- Runway 27R: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 286 ft, road 14 ft high 22 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.15 | |
| Taz and aWOS-3PT | 123.875 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 217-824-9323.
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Aircraft registered in Taylorville from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Taylorville, Illinois: 10 piston singles, 3 drones, 1 helicopter, 1 business jet. 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 · 4 since 1982, 2 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
- Acvt runway end identifier lights runway 09R, 18 and 27L; pvasi runway 09R, 18, 27L and 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09R/27L - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 PRE-SET low intst to incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude: runway 09L/27R 600 feet above ground level; runway 09R/27L and runway 18/36 800 feet above ground level.
- Self service fuel located on north ramp available H24 with credit card.
- Marked with white rocks.
- Unusable beyond 8 degrees right of centerline.
- Unusable beyond 6 degrees left and right of centerline. Operates only when runway light are act by the common traffic frequency.
- Unusable 6 degrees right and 8 degrees left of centerline.
- Unusable beyond 5 degrees left and right of centerline.
- Approach ratio to displaced thld 21:1 when considering 28 feet building 592 feet 96 feet L of centerline.
- 172 feet lighted water tower lct 3007 feet from runway 27L end 488 feet L.
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.