Southwestern Illinois CollegeFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Belleville, Illinois

Southwestern Illinois College is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 2500 Carlyle Avenue in Belleville, Illinois 62221, under air agency certificate DEMS159D with location designator DEMS. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the St. Louis, MO-IL metropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is Scott AFB/Midamerica ST Louis (KBLV), a towered field at 459 ft elevation, 5.1 miles from the school's listed address. The listed address is 5.1 miles from that field, so it may be an administrative or campus address rather than the ramp; ask the school where its training aircraft are actually based. It is the only public-use airport within 10 miles of the address.

Within 100 miles the FAA lists at least five other Part 141 locations; the closest is Ideal Aviation in Sauget, IL at 14 miles, followed by Saint Louis University in St. Louis at 18 miles. Illinois has 15 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #15 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in Centralia (2), Belleville (1) and Chicago (1).

The FAA record carries no agency phone, email or website for this location, so contact details have to come from the school directly. Certification under Part 141 means the FAA has approved the school's training course outlines, facilities and chief-instructor arrangements and inspects them; it is not a quality ranking, and it does not by itself mean the school is VA-approved for GI Bill funding or accredited for federal student aid.