Rantoul National Aviation Center

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Coordinates: 40°17′37″N 088°08′33″W / 40.29361, -88.1425

Rantoul National Aviation Center
Frank Elliott Field
IATA: none – ICAO: KTIP – FAA: TIP
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Village of Rantoul
Location Rantoul, Illinois
Elevation AMSL 737 ft / 225 m
Website village.rantoul.il.us/...
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
9/27 5,000 1,524 Asphalt
18/36 4,895 1,492 Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 20,000
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Rantoul National Aviation Center (ICAO: KTIP, FAA LID: TIP), also known as Frank Elliott Field, is a public airport located in Rantoul, a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. It is owned by the Village of Rantoul.[1] The airport was established in 1993 after the closure of Chanute Air Force Base (which was established as Chanute Field in 1917).

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Rantoul National Aviation Center is assigned TIP by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned TIP to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya).[2][3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Rantoul National Aviation Center covers an area of 1,192 acres (482 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 9/27 measuring 5,000 x 75 ft. (1,524 x 23 m) and 18/36 measuring 4,895 x 75 ft. (1,492 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 20,000 aircraft operations (all general aviation), an average of 54 per day.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for TIP (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
  2. ^ Great Circle Mapper: KTIP - Rantoul, Illinois
  3. ^ Great Circle Mapper: TIP / HLLT - Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya)

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