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Robinson Municipal Airport, officially Crawford County Airport (KRSV), lies four nautical miles east of Robinson, Illinois, in the heart of Crawford County farmland. Built as a wartime auxiliary field for George Army Airfield, it today serves general aviation with two lit asphalt runways and a small but active based-aircraft fleet. Severely damaged by an EF3 tornado in March 2023, the airport has since been rebuilt with modern facilities.
Robinson Municipal Airport, known officially as Crawford County Airport (ICAO: KRSV, FAA LID: RSV), is a public-use general aviation airfield owned by the Crawford County Airport Authority. Situated east of Robinson, Illinois, it is a quiet rural field of interest to simulator pilots for its wartime origins as an auxiliary training strip and for its modern rebuilding following severe storm damage. It supports light general aviation traffic, with a handful of based single and multi-engine aircraft and a fixed-base operator offering fuel and line services.
The airport sits four nautical miles east of the central business district of Robinson, a city in Crawford County, Illinois. It lies within Lamotte Township, amid open farmland typical of southeastern Illinois, with no other major controlled airports in the immediate vicinity.
The airfield has two physical runways, both hard-surfaced and lit. Runway 09/27 is the longer of the pair, measuring 5065 ft (runway 09) by 5095 ft (runway 27). Runway 17/35 is shorter, at 3391 ft (runway 35) by 3403 ft (runway 17). There is no instrument landing system at the field.
The airfield was constructed by the United States Army Air Forces in 1942-43 as an auxiliary field for George Army Airfield near Lawrenceville, Illinois, and was originally designated George Army Airfield Auxiliary #4. Unstaffed and used to train medium bomber and transport pilots for emergency landings and touch-and-go practice, both of its present-day runways date from this wartime construction. At the end of the Second World War the field was abandoned and, in June 1948, transferred under the Surplus Property Act of 1947 to the city of Robinson, which operated it until 1961. A local referendum in December 1959 established the Robinson Community Airport Authority (RCAA), which took over operations in July 1961 and ran the field until 2007, when the Illinois State Legislature dissolved the RCAA and transferred its responsibilities to the newly formed Crawford County Airport Authority. On the evening of March 31, 2023, a long-tracked EF3 tornado associated with a wider outbreak across Illinois and Indiana struck the southern and eastern edges of Robinson at high-end EF3 intensity, directly hitting the airport. Multiple metal hangars with rigid steel-beam frames greater than 18 inches in diameter were destroyed, some entirely swept away, and most airport buildings were damaged. The same storm system went on to devastate Sullivan, Indiana, with the combined tornado killing six people and injuring sixteen.
The airport covers 432 acres and recorded around 11,000 to 11,300 aircraft operations annually in recent years, averaging roughly 31 movements a day, the large majority general aviation with a small proportion of air taxi and negligible military traffic. Seventeen aircraft were based at the field, comprising fifteen single-engine and two multi-engine types. A fixed-base operator provides full- and self-serve fuel along with line services including cargo handling, detailing, deicing and ground handling, and the field has historically offered pilot amenities such as a lounge, snooze rooms, a flight planning kiosk and courtesy cars. Following the destruction wrought by the March 2023 tornado, the airport has been rebuilt with modern facilities, with a new terminal scheduled to open in autumn 2025.
