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Decatur Airport

DECKDEC

Decatur Airport

Decatur, United States
North America America/Chicago
2direct destinations
1airlines
3runways
2,590 mLongest runway
61Aircraft documented

Decatur Airport (IATA: DEC, ICAO: KDEC, FAA LID: DEC) is a public airport five miles east of Decatur, in Macon County, Illinois, United States. The airport is owned by the Decatur Park District. Airline service is subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program at a cost of $6,120,951 (per year). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025 categorized it as a regional general aviation facility. It is the eleventh busiest of the 12 commercial airports in Illinois.

Location

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39.835°N, 88.866°O · 208 m s. n. m. (682 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States
CityDecatur
IATA codeDEC
ICAO codeKDEC
Coordinates39.835°N, 88.866°O
Elevation208 m s. n. m. (682 ft)
Time zoneAmerica/Chicago
Runways3
Longest runway2,590 m
Direct destinations2
Official website

Runways · 3

06/24
Length2,590 m8,497 ft
Width46 m151 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓
12/30
Length2,072 m6,798 ft
Width46 m151 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓
18/36
Length1,615 m5,299 ft
Width46 m151 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

What flies here

From our own logbook: 61 aircraft documented between 2020 and 2025.

61Aircraft documented
2,695Movements recorded
2020–2025Years on record

Types seen here

Bombardier CRJ illustrationBombardier CRJ25

Airlines with documented aircraft

SkyWest Airlines 61

Busiest routes from here

ORDChicago159 flights

A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.

Airlines operating here · 1

Other airlines with direct routes

Air Choice One

Route network according to OpenFlights (open route database). It may not reflect recent schedule changes.

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on September 27, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, September 27). Decatur Airport (DEC). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DEC

MLA

“Decatur Airport (DEC).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 27 Sept. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DEC. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Decatur Airport (DEC).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified September 27, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DEC.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Decatur Airport (DEC). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DEC (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_dec,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Decatur Airport (DEC)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-09-27},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DEC},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DEC}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

{{cite web |url=https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DEC |title=Decatur Airport (DEC) |website=Vuelopedia |publisher=Fundación Poderia |date=2026-09-27 |access-date=2026-10-17 |language=en}}