St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field

FAA IL4838.7329°N 89.8066°W477 ft / 146 mSmall airport

St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field (FAA: IL48) is a small airport in St Jacob, Illinois, United States. It opened in Mar 1972. It has one runway, 2,662 ft (811 m) long, asphalt.

Timeline

1 event · 1972–1972

MAR 1972

OpenedSt Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field opens.

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

13/31136° / 316° · LIT

LENGTH2,662 ft811 mWIDTH50 ft15 mSURFACEAsphalt

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway2,662 ft811 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=18,589of 29,823 · =8,058 North America · =6,860 US Elevation477 ft146 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#27,522of 43,341 · #13,095 North America · #10,962 US AgeOpened 19722026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,633of 15,079 · =4,807 North America · =4,716 US Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2,325 US

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels

A/DAPP/DEP124.200

UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800