Hillsboro Municipal Airport (Illinois)

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Hillsboro Municipal Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Hillsboro, IL
Serves Hillsboro, Illinois
Elevation  AMSL 637 ft / 194 m
Coordinates 39°08′40″N089°27′25″W / 39.14444°N 89.45694°W / 39.14444; -89.45694
Hillsboro Municipal Airport (Illinois)
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
18/364,1501,265Turf
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations3,000
Based aircraft8

Hillsboro Municipal Airport( FAA LID : 3K4) was a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of the central business district of Hillsboro, a city in Montgomery County, Illinois, United States. [1]

Contents

The closest existing airport is Litchfield Municipal Airport. For commercial service, the community of Hillsboro is served by St. Louis Lambert International and Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport. [2]

Facilities and aircraft

Hillsboro Municipal Airport covered an area of 30 acres (12 ha) at an elevation of 637 feet (194 m) above mean sea level. It had one runway designated 18/36 with a turf surface measuring 4,150 by 200 feet (1,265 x 61 m). [1]

For the 12-month period ending October 31, 2005, the airport had 3,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 250 per month. At that time there were 8 aircraft based at this airport, all single-engine. [1]

In 2008, the airport was closed and the ground leased to a local coal mining operation. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for 3K4 PDF , effective 2008-07-31.
  2. ↑ "Hillsboro 2030 Strategic Plan" (PDF). City of Hillsboro, Illinois. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  3. ↑ The State Journal-Register/Associated Press June 9, 2015, "Small-Town airstrips closing a number of pilots declines"
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