University of Illinois Willard Airport (IATA: CMI, ICAO: KCMI, FAA LID: CMI) is an airport owned and operated by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign located south of Savoy in Tolono Township, Champaign County, Illinois. It serves the greater Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area in East Central Illinois. Willard Airport is named for former University of Illinois president Arthur Cutts Willard, and home to the University of Illinois Institute of Aviation, which is a major research facility at the university.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS WILLARD AIRPORT HISTORY
The airport was dedicated on 26 October 1945. The first scheduled commercial flights began in 1954. The terminal building constructed in 1960 was used until the present terminal was completed in 1987. By 1969, Willard had become the second-busiest airport in the state of Illinois. After the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, however, many airlines found service to a regional airport to be inefficient, the price differential to airfares from major hub airports such as Chicago O’Hare grew, which limited the growth of demand for tickets from Willard, lowered the market share within the state, and caused airlines to discontinue service in the ensuing decades.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS WILLARD AIRPORT LOCATION
University of Illinois Willard Airport (IATA: CMI, ICAO: KCMI, FAA LID: CMI) is an airport owned and operated by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign located south of Savoy in Tolono Township, Champaign County, Illinois.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS WILLARD AIRPORT FACTS
ICAO/IATA: CMI/KCMI
Lat: 40°02′21″N
Long: 88°16′41″W
Elevation: 755 ft.
Runway length available: 04/22 6500×150 ft. :: 14R/32L 3817×75 ft. :: 14L/32R 8100×150 ft. :: 18/36 5299×150 ft.
