Vandalia Municipal
VLA · KVLA · Vandalia, Illinois · Fayette County · map
Vandalia Municipal is a public-use airport owned by Vandalia Park District, 3 miles northwest of Vandalia, Illinois, 537 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 3,751 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VLA · ICAO KVLA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Vandalia Park District
- Elevation
- 537 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular
- 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
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1944
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,751 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09/27 | 3,001 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, road 18 ft high 575 ft from the end
- Runway 36: road 14 ft high 522 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM · Vla and aWOS-AV | 122.8 | |
| Decatur and center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.3 |
Automated weather (AWOS-AV), by phone 618-283-9595.
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 Vandalia from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Vandalia, Illinois: 3 piston singles, 2 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.
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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 18, 27 and 36; PAPI runway 18; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset to low intst, to incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Fuel is SELF-SERVE with credit card.
- 8 feet crops 200 feet from runway end penetrating part 77 surface.
- Approach slope 23:1 to relocated threshold using part 77 surface.
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.