SPI

Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport

ICAO KSPI39.8441°N 89.6779°W598 ft / 182 mMedium airport
On the map
KSPI FAA Airport Diagram
Produced by the National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO), a department of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). · Public domain · Commons

Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (IATA: SPI, ICAO: KSPI) is a medium airport in Springfield, Illinois, United States. It opened in Mar 1947. It has 2 runways; the longest is 8,001 ft (2,439 m). In 2025 it handled 100 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1947–1947
MAR 1947
OpenedAbraham Lincoln Capital Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
04/22042° / 222° · LIT
LENGTH8,001 ft2,439 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete
13/31127° / 307° · LIT
LENGTH7,399 ft2,255 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
183K
189K
184K
156K
151K
69K
123K
147K
102K
106K
100K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAmerican Eagle 1Breeze Airways 1Allegiant Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SPI. From the Wikipedia article “Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport” (revision of 25 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers100K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,821of 3,974 · #410 North America · #275 USLongest runway8,001 ft2,439 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,730of 29,823 · =564 North America · =419 USElevation598 ft182 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#25,383of 43,341 · #12,229 North America · #10,195 USAgeOpened 19472026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,942of 15,079 · =1,856 North America · =1,803 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 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

9 channels
A/DSPRINGFIELD APP/DEP118.600
ATISATIS127.650
CLDCLNC DEL121.700
CTAFCTAF121.300
GNDGND121.900
OPSANG OPS27.217
RDOST LOUIS RDO122.250
TWRSPRINGFIELD TWR121.300
UNICUNICOM131.420