Harrisburg-Raleigh airport is a civil, public-use airport located four miles north of the town of

Harrisburg, Illinois Harrisburg () is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Illinois, United States. It is located about southwest of Evansville, Indiana, and southeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Its 2020 population was 8,219, and the surrounding Harrisbur ...

and just southwest of

Raleigh, Illinois Raleigh is a village in Saline County, Illinois, United States. The population was 330 at the 2000 census. History The village of Raleigh was the seat of Saline County, Illinois, Saline County following the county's troubled creation in 1847. Rale ...

in Saline County. The airport is publicly owned. The airport has two asphalt runways. Runway 6/24 is 5013 x 75 ft (1528 x 23 m) and runway 14/32 is 2764 x 75 ft (842 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2018, the airport averaged 49 aircraft operations per day, or about 18,000 per year. This consists of 90%

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, 8%

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, and 2%

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. For the same time frame, there were 15 aircraft based on the airport: 13 single-engine, 1 multi-engine, and 1

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. The airport ranks #301 out of 323 airport in Illinois. The airport has an FBO offering fuel, general maintenance, courtesy cars, conference rooms, snooze rooms, and more.

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